Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:43:03 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@ni.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: macb: do not scan PHYs manually
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> I agree that is a valid fix for AT91, however it won't solve our problem, since
> we have no children on the second ethernet MAC in our devices' device trees. I'm
> starting to feel like our second MAC shouldn't even really register the MDIO bus
> since it isn't being used - maybe adding a DT property to not have a bus is a
> better option?

status = "disabled"

would be the unusual way.

      Andrew