[PATCH net-next 0/2] net: mdio: add amlogic gxl mdio mux support

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Thu Jan 19 09:21:56 PST 2023


> I usually avoid doing this since the DT part is intended for another
> maintainer. The idea is make life easy for them and let them pick the
> entire series (or not). I don't mind sending the DT update along if it
> is the perferred way with netdev.
> 
> FYI, the DT update would look like this :
> https://gitlab.com/jbrunet/linux/-/commit/1d38ccf1b9f264111b1c56f18cfb4804227d3894.patch
> 
> >
> >> This has been tested on the aml-s905x-cc (LePotato) for the internal path
> >> and the aml-s912-pc (Tartiflette) for the external path.
> >
> > So these exist in mainline, which is enough for me.
> 
> Yes the boards exists in mainline, there are still using the mdio-mux-mmioreg driver
> ATM

The point of posting the actual users is sometimes we get vendor crap
with no actual in tree users. We want to avoid that. It can be enough
to mention in the cover letter than a future patchset will change the
DT files X, Y and Z, making it clear there are in tree users.

   Andrew



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