# Re: \[PATCH net-next 07/10\] net: phy: switch to using class\_find\_device\_by\_fwnode()

- From: Dmitry Torokhov \<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2026-03-23 21:50:01 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/03/3476090
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/03/3473906/t.md

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 09:15:11PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > This is not "foreign territory" - ACPI in general doesn't want to
> > describe e.g. the individual components of a network card, unlike
> > DT.
> 
> It has also been suggested that the MDIO bus should be added to the
> ACPI specification as a first class bus, similar to I2C, SPI,
> etc. This would make it different to the DT. So we don't want to
> encourage developers to use the networking DT concepts in ACPI, it
> will just cause problems if the ACPI spec every actually covers the
> use cases of networking.

BTW, why would not we want to push for the unified binding? They are the
same pieces of hardware...

-- 
Dmitry
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