From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05528C433F5 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB48963225 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:45 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org AB48963225 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=y+1L7n9yVGHsUv+qbPc6iUB23JH7dhVcWnz+ZNWToNc=; b=Ou54xaMYzX1anw ppqYoVT5I7nJ1FA8gyyXPfuy8ITYoNiyq2fw9Z1mJ/2JLdIuAReLXsRGG21OPkmqDiyFUUNSuMtNu m7xfeYqUxhsPcf3NPHh48qkGvpoIQHRu5gUFdoD++99PuG9fWtG9cX8lMnDOf3fRDD9xdSF6jGUHH OS0Uq7DB5lbLWgU8BQec+sII5ix3GA3QUtdE4Uf905wsD8IKX+0ifBrns4Cl+7sz+KoJT3ijdr9+Y HGN2VQo9+PR/v5GgIqXBC4f1fng7WbKrZ0uaC9t6q8Mt4Nfs3L5edGSD1OEMO7/r9ikFE1x/deuas P8qyFI5PjwUA26nAsS+Q==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1mn2wn-002XMZ-6O; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:45 +0000 Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1mn2wk-002XKt-1E for linux-phy@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:43 +0000 Received: (Authenticated sender: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com) by relay2-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF86A40002; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 18:12:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:12:36 +0100 From: Alexandre Belloni To: Horatiu Vultur Cc: Vinod Koul , kishon@ti.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, andrew@lunn.ch, kuba@kernel.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH resend v4 0/3] phy: Add driver for lan966x Serdes driver Message-ID: References: <20211116100818.1615762-1-horatiu.vultur@microchip.com> <20211116102151.k3evnn4f2rwsi5nk@soft-dev3-1.localhost> <20211116105601.fauvfv2wzlmcf6jc@soft-dev3-1.localhost> <20211116115228.5qn4o3gkh26674rw@soft-dev3-1.localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20211116115228.5qn4o3gkh26674rw@soft-dev3-1.localhost> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20211116_101242_235625_3121A1FA X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 22.55 ) X-BeenThere: linux-phy@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux Phy Mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-phy" Errors-To: linux-phy-bounces+linux-phy=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hello, On 16/11/2021 12:52:28+0100, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > The 11/16/2021 17:13, Vinod Koul wrote: > > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe > > > > On 16-11-21, 11:56, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > The 11/16/2021 16:15, Vinod Koul wrote: > > > > > > > > On 16-11-21, 11:21, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > > > The 11/16/2021 11:08, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Kison, Vinod, > > > > > > > > > > Can you let me know if you have more comments to this patch series? > > > > > Otherwise can you ack on it? Because I would like to have the patches > > > > > merged via netdev if that is OK for you. > > > > > > > > Any reason for merge thru netdev, there is no dependency and now with > > > > merge window closed, I can pick this up.. > > > > > > Because I would like to send some patches for the lan966x network driver. > > > And these network patches depend on the serdes driver. > > > > There cant be a compile time dependency... the network driver can use > > the phy apis.. I dont think it is required here... Did I miss something > > obvious? > > You are right, there is no compile time dependency and the network > driver can use the PHY APIs. > > But at runtime the network driver will need to configure the serdes > using the PHY API to be able to work properly. > It is fine if it doesn't work at runtime with only one branch, both will get merged in linux-next and you can test with that if necessary. I'll let both series go through separate trees. -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com -- linux-phy mailing list linux-phy@lists.infradead.org https://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-phy