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[2003:ea:8f1f:b00:1062:8af8:2f20:2501]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-61d3174074bsm10410087a12.35.2025.09.03.23.03.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 03 Sep 2025 23:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 08:03:18 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: remove link gpio support To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Andrew Lunn , Andrew Lunn , Paolo Abeni , Eric Dumazet , David Miller , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Florian Fainelli References: <230c1f83-6dac-484a-bc80-e62260e56e74@gmail.com> <20250903173204.3ca4969e@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Heiner Kallweit Autocrypt: addr=hkallweit1@gmail.com; keydata= xsFNBF/0ZFUBEAC0eZyktSE7ZNO1SFXL6cQ4i4g6Ah3mOUIXSB4pCY5kQ6OLKHh0FlOD5/5/ sY7IoIouzOjyFdFPnz4Bl3927ClT567hUJJ+SNaFEiJ9vadI6vZm2gcY4ExdIevYHWe1msJF MVE4yNwdS+UsPeCF/6CQQTzHc+n7DomE7fjJD5J1hOJjqz2XWe71fTvYXzxCFLwXXbBiqDC9 dNqOe5odPsa4TsWZ09T33g5n2nzTJs4Zw8fCy8rLqix/raVsqr8fw5qM66MVtdmEljFaJ9N8 /W56qGCp+H8Igk/F7CjlbWXiOlKHA25mPTmbVp7VlFsvsmMokr/imQr+0nXtmvYVaKEUwY2g 86IU6RAOuA8E0J5bD/BeyZdMyVEtX1kT404UJZekFytJZrDZetwxM/cAH+1fMx4z751WJmxQ J7mIXSPuDfeJhRDt9sGM6aRVfXbZt+wBogxyXepmnlv9K4A13z9DVLdKLrYUiu9/5QEl6fgI kPaXlAZmJsQfoKbmPqCHVRYj1lpQtDM/2/BO6gHASflWUHzwmBVZbS/XRs64uJO8CB3+V3fa cIivllReueGCMsHh6/8wgPAyopXOWOxbLsZ291fmZqIR0L5Y6b2HvdFN1Xhc+YrQ8TKK+Z4R mJRDh0wNQ8Gm89g92/YkHji4jIWlp2fwzCcx5+lZCQ1XdqAiHQARAQABzSZIZWluZXIgS2Fs bHdlaXQgPGhrYWxsd2VpdDFAZ21haWwuY29tPsLBjgQTAQgAOBYhBGxfqY/yOyXjyjJehXLe ig9U8DoMBQJf9GRVAhsDBQsJCAcCBhUKCQgLAgQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEHLeig9U8DoMSycQ AJbfg8HZEK0ljV4M8nvdaiNixWAufrcZ+SD8zhbxl8GispK4F3Yo+20Y3UoZ7FcIidJWUUJL axAOkpI/70YNhlqAPMsuudlAieeYZKjIv1WV5ucNZ3VJ7dC+dlVqQdAr1iD869FZXvy91KhJ wYulyCf+s4T9YgmLC6jLMBZghKIf1uhSd0NzjyCqYWbk2ZxByZHgunEShOhHPHswu3Am0ftt ePaYIHgZs+Vzwfjs8I7EuW/5/f5G9w1vibXxtGY/GXwgGGHRDjFM7RSprGOv4F5eMGh+NFUJ TU9N96PQYMwXVxnQfRXl8O6ffSVmFx4H9rovxWPKobLmqQL0WKLLVvA/aOHCcMKgfyKRcLah 57vGC50Ga8oT2K1g0AhKGkyJo7lGXkMu5yEs0m9O+btqAB261/E3DRxfI1P/tvDZpLJKtq35 dXsj6sjvhgX7VxXhY1wE54uqLLHY3UZQlmH3QF5t80MS7/KhxB1pO1Cpcmkt9hgyzH8+5org +9wWxGUtJWNP7CppY+qvv3SZtKJMKsxqk5coBGwNkMms56z4qfJm2PUtJQGjA65XWdzQACib 2iaDQoBqGZfXRdPT0tC1H5kUJuOX4ll1hI/HBMEFCcO8++Bl2wcrUsAxLzGvhINVJX2DAQaF aNetToazkCnzubKfBOyiTqFJ0b63c5dqziAgzsFNBF/0ZFUBEADF8UEZmKDl1w/UxvjeyAeX kghYkY3bkK6gcIYXdLRfJw12GbvMioSguvVzASVHG8h7NbNjk1yur6AONfbUpXKSNZ0skV8V fG+ppbaY+zQofsSMoj5gP0amwbwvPzVqZCYJai81VobefTX2MZM2Mg/ThBVtGyzV3NeCpnBa 8AX3s9rrX2XUoCibYotbbxx9afZYUFyflOc7kEpc9uJXIdaxS2Z6MnYLHsyVjiU6tzKCiVOU KJevqvzPXJmy0xaOVf7mhFSNQyJTrZpLa+tvB1DQRS08CqYtIMxRrVtC0t0LFeQGly6bOngr ircurWJiJKbSXVstLHgWYiq3/GmCSx/82ObeLO3PftklpRj8d+kFbrvrqBgjWtMH4WtK5uN5 1WJ71hWJfNchKRlaJ3GWy8KolCAoGsQMovn/ZEXxrGs1ndafu47yXOpuDAozoHTBGvuSXSZo ythk/0EAuz5IkwkhYBT1MGIAvNSn9ivE5aRnBazugy0rTRkVggHvt3/7flFHlGVGpBHxFUwb /a4UjJBPtIwa4tWR8B1Ma36S8Jk456k2n1id7M0LQ+eqstmp6Y+UB+pt9NX6t0Slw1NCdYTW gJezWTVKF7pmTdXszXGxlc9kTrVUz04PqPjnYbv5UWuDd2eyzGjrrFOsJEi8OK2d2j4FfF++ AzOMdW09JVqejQARAQABwsF2BBgBCAAgFiEEbF+pj/I7JePKMl6Fct6KD1TwOgwFAl/0ZFUC GwwACgkQct6KD1TwOgxUfg//eAoYc0Vm4NrxymfcY30UjHVD0LgSvU8kUmXxil3qhFPS7KA+ y7tgcKLHOkZkXMX5MLFcS9+SmrAjSBBV8omKoHNo+kfFx/dUAtz0lot8wNGmWb+NcHeKM1eb nwUMOEa1uDdfZeKef/U/2uHBceY7Gc6zPZPWgXghEyQMTH2UhLgeam8yglyO+A6RXCh+s6ak Wje7Vo1wGK4eYxp6pwMPJXLMsI0ii/2k3YPEJPv+yJf90MbYyQSbkTwZhrsokjQEaIfjrIk3 rQRjTve/J62WIO28IbY/mENuGgWehRlTAbhC4BLTZ5uYS0YMQCR7v9UGMWdNWXFyrOB6PjSu Trn9MsPoUc8qI72mVpxEXQDLlrd2ijEWm7Nrf52YMD7hL6rXXuis7R6zY8WnnBhW0uCfhajx q+KuARXC0sDLztcjaS3ayXonpoCPZep2Bd5xqE4Ln8/COCslP7E92W1uf1EcdXXIrx1acg21 H/0Z53okMykVs3a8tECPHIxnre2UxKdTbCEkjkR4V6JyplTS47oWMw3zyI7zkaadfzVFBxk2 lo/Tny+FX1Azea3Ce7oOnRUEZtWSsUidtIjmL8YUQFZYm+JUIgfRmSpMFq8JP4VH43GXpB/S OCrl+/xujzvoUBFV/cHKjEQYBxo+MaiQa1U54ykM2W4DnHb1UiEf5xDkFd4= In-Reply-To: <20250903173204.3ca4969e@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/4/2025 2:32 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 20:37:02 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> The only user of fixed_phy gpio functionality was here: >> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/vf610-zii-dev-rev-b.dts >> Support for the switch on this board was migrated to phylink >> (DSA - mv88e6xxx) years ago, so the functionality is unused now. >> Therefore remove it. > > Sorry if I'm mixing things up and misunderstanding. > There was a recent conversation regarding backward compat > with device trees. Was it related to this patch? Is the policy > that we only care about in-tree device trees? > Would it make sense to document in the commit message? > This other conversation was about something different, the deprecated old fixed-link binding. Wrt link gpio there is a very small risk that there's out-of-tree users who use link gpio with a switch chip not handled by DSA. I can mention this in the commit message. And yes, my current understanding is that we care about in-tree dt's only.