From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: 李志 <lizhi2@eswincomputing.com>, "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Bo Gan <ganboing@gmail.com>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
robh@kernel.org, krzk+dt@kernel.org, conor+dt@kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com, alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com,
linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com,
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linmin@eswincomputing.com, pinkesh.vaghela@einfochips.com,
weishangjuan@eswincomputing.com
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] dt-bindings: ethernet: eswin: add clock sampling control
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:03:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aXJKNBAifG6qv80M@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d010a6b8-5bf0-40ff-8e76-18362a238d50@lunn.ch>
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > We also intend
> > to upstream complete DTS files for EIC7700 so the bindings can be validated
> > against real hardware.
>
> I suggest you prioritise this. ARM-SOC is pretty flexible for
> accepting work in progress support for new SoCs. All you really need
> is for the board to boot to a login prompt on a serial port using an
> initramsfs. So the .dtsi and .dts file can be very slim, CPUs, memory
> and UARTs.
>
> Once you have that merged you can work on the other drivers, their
> bindings, etc.
>
> As Russell pointed out, at the moment, most of the code you have in
> the kernel is unusable, so it is a candidate for being thrown out.
Indeed, and we've had drivers merged before for platforms that never
made it in, and they just hang around for decades, adding to the
maintainer's burden for no benefit what so ever.
So please, no more drivers for EIC7700 until there is functional
support for the platform, as Andrew states.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-22 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-09 8:06 [PATCH v1 0/2] net: stmmac: eic7700: fix EIC7700 eth1 RX sampling timing lizhi2
2026-01-09 8:08 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] dt-bindings: ethernet: eswin: add clock sampling control lizhi2
2026-01-09 18:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-10 18:26 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-11 4:05 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-12 7:05 ` 李志
2026-01-22 13:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-22 16:03 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2026-01-27 7:05 ` Min Lin
2026-01-27 13:40 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-12 6:00 ` 李志
2026-01-22 13:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-23 3:00 ` 李志
2026-01-23 3:19 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-23 7:39 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-23 9:52 ` 李志
2026-01-23 10:07 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-01-23 10:47 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-23 19:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-24 4:57 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-26 3:10 ` Min Lin
2026-01-26 18:29 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2026-01-27 6:14 ` Min Lin
2026-01-28 2:38 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-28 5:48 ` Min Lin
2026-02-03 6:06 ` Min Lin
2026-02-03 13:16 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-28 10:05 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-01-29 2:01 ` Bo Gan
2026-01-09 8:09 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] net: stmmac: eic7700: enable clocks before syscon access and correct RX sampling timing lizhi2
2026-01-09 18:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-01-12 6:55 ` 李志
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