On 05/18/2018 06:45 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: >> What benefit does it have to register unused ports? What is a usecase >> for them. Like Florian, I also think they should not be registered. > > Hi Jiri > > They physically exist, so we are accurately describing the hardware by > registering them.
You are right that the driver is advertising a number of ports that does not match what is being expected. We unfortunately do not have a good API for specifying e.g: a sparse port allocation. -- Florian
