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

From: Jernej Škrabec
Date: Wed Sep 01 2021 - 11:31:41 EST


Dne torek, 31. avgust 2021 ob 22:53:24 CEST je Andrew Lunn napisal(a):
> > 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.

Maxime, Chen-Yu, thoughts?

Since there are both approaches for fixes tag already in, I guess this is also
fine.

Best regards,
Jernej