[PATCH 0/1] StarFive DWMAC support for JH7100

Cristian Ciocaltea cristian.ciocaltea at collabora.com
Tue Dec 19 16:11:42 PST 2023


On 12/20/23 01:58, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 12/20/23 01:48, Conor Dooley wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 01:10:38AM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
>>> This is just a subset of the initial patch series [1] adding networking
>>> support for StarFive JH7100 SoC.
>>>
>>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231218214451.2345691-1-cristian.ciocaltea@collabora.com/
>>
>> You need to send the binding patch alongside the driver, unless that has
>> been applied already.

You are right, the binding should stay with the driver as it provides
the top-level compatibles.  I was wrongly thinking on the base
snps,dwmac only.

> Yeah, I wasn't sure about that, that's why I initially asked in [1] for
> a confirmation regarding the split.  I chose to keep the binding in the
> same set with the dts patches because the driver is just a glue layer
> and doesn't really depend on bindings changes.
> 
> Should I still provide it here?  I was about to submit the remaining
> patch set, so it would be great if we could clarify this beforehand.
> 
> Thanks for noticing the potential issue,
> Cristian
> 
> [1]:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0451e5a9-0cfb-42a5-b74b-2012e2c0d326@collabora.com/
> 
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