[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dts: bananapi: add support for PHY LEDs

[Michael Klein]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 02:17:27PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 10:40:42AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:34:50 +0100
>> Michael Klein <michael at fossekall.de> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 07:07:24AM +0100, Jernej Škrabec wrote:
>> > >Dne sreda, 12. marec 2025 ob 20:36:28 Srednjeevropski standardni čas je Michael Klein napisal(a):
>> > >> The Bananapi M1 has three LEDs connected to the RTL8211E ethernet PHY.
>> > >> Add the corresponding nodes to the device tree.
>> > >>
>> > >> Signed-off-by: Michael Klein <michael at fossekall.de>
>> > >
>> > >This is patch 2/2. Which one is patch 1/2? I got only one.
>> >
>> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20250312193629.85417-1-michael@fossekall.de/
>> >
>> > Sorry for any inconvenience in case I messed up the patch submission.
>> >
>> > I made two commits for this change and submitted them via `git send-email
>> > HEAD^^`. The first patch went to netdev at vger.kernel.org, the second
>> > to linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org, which seems logical. Have I
>> > done something wrong?
>>
>> Well, for those really small "series" it's probably better to send all
>> patches to everyone, especially if the first patch gives some context,
>> without which the second leaves people (like me) scratching their head.
>
>However, netdev does not like pathchsets which contain patches which
>should not be applied to the netdev tree. DT patches generally go
>through a different Maintainer to driver changes implementing the
>binding.
>
>So for your DT patch, you could add to the commit message something
>like:
>
>The RTL8211E ethernet PHY driver has recently gained support for
>controlling PHY LEDs via /sys/class/leds. The Bananapi M1 has three
>LEDs connected to the RTL8211E PHY.  Add the corresponding nodes to
>the device tree.

Thanks, this totally makes sense. I'll split the patch series then and 
follow-up here with the updated commit message when the netdev change is 
accepted.

-- 
Michael