Re: [PATCH 1/7] Documentation: dt: net: Update the ath9k binding for SoC devices

Christian Lamparter
2017-03-28T17:09:00Z

On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:41:59 PM CEST Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Oh, in that case you should probably go "all out" and ask on the
> > LKML to remove all of the ath9k and ath10k ahb work. From what I
> > know all the "users" are running some sort of OpenWRT/LEDE or a
> > derivative. This is because Atheros/QCA provided a SDK based on
> > OpenWRT.
> >
> > Alban has been trying to convert the platform to device-tree
> > and add them to the mainline for a while now:
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6514551/
> >
> > So, you are questioning this work as well.
>
> Not at all. Ralph Sennhauser has been doing a great job of getting all
> the Marvell devices into Mainline, and i help as much as i can, being
> one of the Marvell SoC Maintainers.
>
> I'm just saying, get a few boards which require these facilities into
> the mainline, and then you have a much stronger base to argue from.

I was arguing not to deprecate "qca,no-eeprom" property.

based on this quote from Linus' <https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/16/995>:
|if a new interface is truly more flexible, then it should be able
|to implement the old interface with no changes, so that drivers
|shouldn't need to be changed/upgraded.

what stronger point to do you want?

Thanks,
Christian
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