Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] dt-bindings: net: airoha: npu: Add EN7581-7996 support

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 09:20:27AM +0100, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce en7581-npu-7996 compatible string in order to enable MT76 NPU
> offloading for MT7996 (Eagle) chipset since it requires different
> binaries with respect to the ones used for MT7992 on the EN7581 SoC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,en7581-npu.yaml | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,en7581-npu.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,en7581-npu.yaml
> index 59c57f58116b568092446e6cfb7b6bd3f4f47b82..96b2525527c14f60754885c1362b9603349a6353 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,en7581-npu.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/airoha,en7581-npu.yaml
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ properties:
>    compatible:
>      enum:
>        - airoha,en7581-npu
> +      - airoha,en7581-npu-7996

This does not warrant new compatible. There is some misunderstanding and
previous discussion asked you to use proper compatible, not invent fake
one for non-existing hardware.  Either you have en7996-npu or
en7581-npu. Not some mixture.


Best regards,
Krzysztof