netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v2 1/8] dt-bindings: net: dwmac-sun8i: Clean up clock delay chain descriptions

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Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 14:03:30 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.io>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v2 1/8] dt-bindings: net: dwmac-sun8i:
 Clean up clock delay chain descriptions

> > Currently no other board requires this, but this is already part of the
> > binding. The new stuff limits the range for a specific SoC, simply because
> > that is the range supported by the control register. Not implementing, i.e.
> > supporting the whole range from the property, which might get truncated,
> > doesn't make much sense to me.
> 
> With that driver we don't, but the previous design had the same
> feature and it was used on more boards. It was simply initialized
> statically in U-Boot, and not in Linux through the DT like it is done
> here.

If there are boards which do need it, then i'm fine with it. I would
also prefer that Linux does set it, and don't rely on U-boot.

   Andrew