[PATCH v8 02/16] dt-bindings: net: mediatek,net: allow up to 8 IRQs

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 07/07/2025 12:43, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
> Hi Angelo,
> 
> Am 7. Juli 2025 12:06:02 MESZ schrieb AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>:
>> Il 07/07/25 09:30, Frank Wunderlich ha scritto:
>>> Am 7. Juli 2025 08:31:11 MESZ schrieb Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>:
>>>> On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 03:21:57PM +0200, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
>>>>> From: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de>
>>>>>
>>>>> Increase the maximum IRQ count to 8 (4 FE + 4 RSS/LRO).
>>>>
>>>> Because? Hardware was updated? It was missing before?
>>>
>>> There is no RSS support in driver yet,so IRQs were not added to existing DTS yet.
>>>
>>
>> That's the problem. It's the hardware that you should've described, not the driver.
>>
>> In short, you should've allowed the interrupts from the get-go, and you wouldn't
>> be in this situation now :-)
> 
> I have not upstreamed MT7981 or MT7986. I also do not want to say anybody else did this wrong.
> I'm happy that MT7986 is working in mainline. It was basicly not taken into account that these IRQs may be needed in future.
> 
> The technical documents are often not complete and we get some information step-by-step while testing.
> Or it was not seen when documents are too large :) many reasons why it was "forgotten to add".
> We use what we get from sdk and docs and try to make it compatible with mainline....no optimal process,but it is like it is.


Then explain in the commit msg that hardware description was incomplete
and was missing this and that.

This is the valid reason for doing the change.

Best regards,
Krzysztof