Re: [PATCH] [v2] netdev/phy: add MDIO bus multiplexer driven by a memory-mapped device

From: Stephen Warren <redacted>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:56:05 -0600

In the I2C case, the address spaces are disjoint, so there's never any
mapping between them, so there's no need for ranges.

Any time the child address space is intended to be part of the parent's
address space, I believe ranges is supposed to be specified, perhaps
even mandatory, even if the translation is 1:1.

Regardless, you really can't just generically translate ranges
in some universal way and expect it to work in all cases.

You need bus specific drivers to deal with various special
cases.

See the *_map() methods implemented in:

	arch/sparc/kernel/of_device_64.c

for example.