From: Tim Harvey <tharvey@gateworks.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-gw5904: add internal mdio nodes
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 11:24:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ+vNU2mhp-zthHb_a3zidSuFsEo2VT3kZK-k1aVY+GeRySSeQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221205191509.moan3imfllfpxkb7@skbuf>
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:15 AM Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:10:45AM -0800, Tim Harvey wrote:
> > before adding the internal PHY nodes it works fine so no backporting
> > needed. I just don't want to add the complete/unambiguous dt-bindings
> > until your patch lands as at that point it would otherwise be broken.
>
> Right, but there is some debate on whether device tree updates should
> require new kernel or not. Since in this case, kernels 5.18 and newer
> can trivially support the updated device trees with this change, I think
> it would be silly not to let it be backported. As for older kernels, it
> really depends on what the board ships with.
I see. So then your patch should be backported to when the phy
validation was added which would be d4ebf12bcec4 ("net: dsa:
mv88e6xxx: populate supported_interfaces and mac_capabilities") then
right?
Best Regards,
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-01 0:31 [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-gw5904: add internal mdio nodes Tim Harvey
2022-12-01 0:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-gw5904: add dt props for populating eth MAC addrs Tim Harvey
2022-12-02 1:02 ` Fabio Estevam
2022-12-02 1:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: dts: imx6qdl-gw5904: add internal mdio nodes Fabio Estevam
2022-12-02 13:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-12-02 16:48 ` Tim Harvey
2022-12-02 17:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-12-02 22:29 ` Tim Harvey
2022-12-04 0:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-12-05 17:10 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-05 18:01 ` Tim Harvey
2022-12-05 19:02 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-05 19:10 ` Tim Harvey
2022-12-05 19:15 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-05 19:24 ` Tim Harvey [this message]
2022-12-05 19:37 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-12-05 17:27 ` Vladimir Oltean
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAJ+vNU2mhp-zthHb_a3zidSuFsEo2VT3kZK-k1aVY+GeRySSeQ@mail.gmail.com \
--to=tharvey@gateworks.com \
--cc=andrew@lunn.ch \
--cc=devicetree@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=festevam@gmail.com \
--cc=kernel@pengutronix.de \
--cc=krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org \
--cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=linux-imx@nxp.com \
--cc=robh+dt@kernel.org \
--cc=s.hauer@pengutronix.de \
--cc=shawnguo@kernel.org \
--cc=vladimir.oltean@nxp.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).