Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: use swnode fixed-link if using default params

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: use swnode fixed-link if using default params
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:13:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YtWwzwO9gZoR+9T/@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YtWtjYuQ8aLL64Tg@smile.fi.intel.com>

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:59:25PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:36:29PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:11:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:01:48PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > Co-developed by Vladimir Oltean and myself.
> > > 
> > > Why not to use
> > > 
> > >   Co-developed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> > 
> > Ah, that's an official thing. Thanks.
> 
> Yep, it's even documented in Submitting Patches.
> 
> ...
> 
> > > > +	phy_node = of_parse_phandle(dn, "phy-handle", 0);
> > > 
> > > fwnode in the name, why not to use fwnode APIs?
> > > 
> > > 	fwnode_find_reference();
> > 
> > Marcin has a series converting DSA to use fwnode things - currently DSA
> > does not support ACPI, so converting it to fwnode doesn't make that much
> > sese until the proper ACPI patches get merged, which have now been
> > rebased on this series by Marcin in the expectation that these patches
> > would be merged... so I don't want to tred on Marcin's feet on that.
> 
> But it's normal development process...
> 
> Anyway, it seems to me that you are using fwnode out of that (with the
> exception of one call). To me it looks that you add a work to him, rather
> than making his life easier, since you know ahead that this is going to be
> converted.

No, I didn't know ahead of time until Marcin piped up about it, and
then we discussed how to resolve the conflict between the two patch
sets.

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