linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] remove different PHY fixups

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Message-ID: <YGM2AGfawEFTKOtE@lunn.ch>
Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:30:24 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
Cc:     Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM ARCHITECTURE" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        David Jander <david@...tonic.nl>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Philippe Schenker <philippe.schenker@...adex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] remove different PHY fixups

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:00:52AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Oleksij,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:26 AM Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > changes v2:
> > - rebase against latest kernel
> > - fix networking on RIoTBoard
> >
> > This patch series tries to remove most of the imx6 and imx7 board
> > specific PHY configuration via fixup, as this breaks the PHYs when
> > connected to switch chips or USB Ethernet MACs.
> >
> > Each patch has the possibility to break boards, but contains a
> > recommendation to fix the problem in a more portable and future-proof
> > way.
> 
> I think this series moves us in the right direction, even with the
> possibility to break old dtb's.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
> 
> Andrew, what do you think?

Hi Fabio

I think it should be merged, and we fixup anything which does break.
We are probably at the point where more is broken by not merging it
than merging it.

  Andrew