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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/10] define and enforce phylink bindings
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On 23.09.2023 01:44, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> However, to dress this up as "phylink requires xyz, so lets create
>> a phylink binding description" is just wrong.
> 
> +1
> 
> Also, phylink is a Linux implementation detail. Other OSes using the
> binding don't need to have phylink. Yet they can still use the DT
> blobs because they should describe the hardware, independent of how
> the OS drives that hardware.

I haven't stated it directly but I've been agreeing to this fact since the
start of the discussion on patch 7.

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