Re: RFC: Advice on adding support for Qualcomm IPQ9574 SoC Ethernet

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 04/10/2024 15:06, Kiran Kumar C.S.K wrote:
>>> The MII Rx/Tx clocks are supplied from the NSS clock controller to the
>>> PCS's MII channels. To represent this in the DTS, the PCS node in the
>>> DTS is configured with the MII Rx/Tx clock that it consumes, using
>>> macros for clocks which are exported from the NSS CC driver in a header
>>> file. So, there will be a compile-time dependency for the dtbindings/DTS
>>> on the NSS CC patch series. We will clearly call out this dependency in
>>> the cover letter of the PCS driver. Hope that this approach is ok.
>>
>> Since there is a compile time dependency, you might want to ask for
>> the clock patches to be put into a stable branch which can be merged
>> into netdev.
>>
> 
> Sure. We will request for such a stable branch merge once the NSS CC
> patches are accepted by the reviewers. Could the 'net' tree be one such
> stable branch option to merge the NSS CC driver?

NAK.

This is not needed and cannot happen.

Best regards,
Krzysztof