[PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: use swnode fixed-link if using default params
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Mon Jul 18 12:13:19 PDT 2022
On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 09:59:25PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:36:29PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:11:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:01:48PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > Co-developed by Vladimir Oltean and myself.
> > >
> > > Why not to use
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean at nxp.com>
> >
> > Ah, that's an official thing. Thanks.
>
> Yep, it's even documented in Submitting Patches.
>
> ...
>
> > > > + phy_node = of_parse_phandle(dn, "phy-handle", 0);
> > >
> > > fwnode in the name, why not to use fwnode APIs?
> > >
> > > fwnode_find_reference();
> >
> > Marcin has a series converting DSA to use fwnode things - currently DSA
> > does not support ACPI, so converting it to fwnode doesn't make that much
> > sese until the proper ACPI patches get merged, which have now been
> > rebased on this series by Marcin in the expectation that these patches
> > would be merged... so I don't want to tred on Marcin's feet on that.
>
> But it's normal development process...
>
> Anyway, it seems to me that you are using fwnode out of that (with the
> exception of one call). To me it looks that you add a work to him, rather
> than making his life easier, since you know ahead that this is going to be
> converted.
No, I didn't know ahead of time until Marcin piped up about it, and
then we discussed how to resolve the conflict between the two patch
sets.
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