Re: [PATCH net-next 07/10] net: phy: switch to using class_find_device_by_fwnode()

[Andrew Lunn]

> 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.

     Andrew