From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] net: phy: fixed_phy: transition to the faux device interface
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ded6e25-111b-4771-9be2-46cfbee27932@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250318-plat2faux_dev-v2-8-e6cc73f78478@arm.com>
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 05:01:46PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The net fixed phy driver does not require the creation of a platform
> device. Originally, this approach was chosen for simplicity when the
> driver was first implemented.
>
> With the introduction of the lightweight faux device interface, we now
> have a more appropriate alternative. Migrate the device to utilize the
> faux bus, given that the platform device it previously created was not
> a real one anyway. This will get rid of the fake platform device.
You were asked to split this up by subsystem. So why is this 8/8?
There are not 7 other patches for netdev.
Please also take a read of:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html
Andrew
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-18 17:01 [PATCH v2 0/8] drivers: Transition to the faux device interface Sudeep Holla
2025-03-18 17:01 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] net: phy: fixed_phy: transition " Sudeep Holla
2025-03-18 17:12 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2025-03-19 11:05 ` Sudeep Holla
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