From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com>,
UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com,
Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: lan966x: remove PHY reset support
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:45:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmveBgHG9KCwvySO@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220428114049.1456382-1-michael@walle.cc>
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 01:40:47PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
> Remove the unneeded PHY reset node as well as the driver support for it.
>
> This was already discussed [1] and I expect Microchip to Ack on this
> removal. Since there is no user, no breakage is expected.
>
> I'm not sure it this should go through net or net-next and if the patches
> should have a Fixes: tag or not. In upstream linux there was never any user
> of it, so there is no bug to be fixed. But OTOH if the schema fix isn't
> backported, then there might be an older schema version still containing
> the reset node. Thoughts?
Is the switch driver usable in the last LTS kernel? Somebody could
build a product around 5.15, and i assume they will have issues?
That could be an argument for backporting.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-29 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 11:40 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: lan966x: remove PHY reset support Michael Walle
2022-04-28 11:40 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] dt-bindings: net: lan966x: remove PHY reset Michael Walle
2022-05-03 13:04 ` Rob Herring
2022-05-03 13:22 ` Michael Walle
2022-04-28 11:40 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: lan966x: remove PHY reset support Michael Walle
2022-04-28 20:37 ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] " Horatiu Vultur
2022-04-29 12:45 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2022-04-30 12:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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