[PATCH] arm64: dts: sun50i: h5: NanoPI Neo 2: phy-mode rgmii-id

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Tue Aug 31 13:53:24 PDT 2021


> True, but then again, DT is a bit special, since it's not used only by Linux. 
> It's shared at least with BSDs and U-Boot, which most likely have independent 
> driver implementation. That's why it's good to have DT fixes referencing DT 
> related commits. As you said, DT described HW wrong.
> 
> Looking at past Allwinner related DT commits regarding this issue, we were not 
> totally consistent. Most of them reference commit where emac node was 
> introduced in DT. But I also found a couple of commits which indeed have fixes 
> tag for bbc4d71d6354.

All true, and it is not a big deal if it does go back further. I don't
care, we can let the Allwinner Maintainer decide. Ah, that is you :-)

I just want to try to keep it simple for somebody who is contributing
their first Linux kernel patch. If it is good enough, i say accept it,
and we can do a bit more education on the second contribution.

    Andre



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