linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support

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Message-ID: <YLq9fgtj1xb0peA+@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sat, 5 Jun 2021 01:55:42 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Sander Vanheule <sander@...nheule.net>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Clause-22/Clause-45 MDIO regmap support

> I have zero experience with clause-45 devices, and no such devices
> available for testing. As such, clause-45 code in the second patch is
> entirely untested, although it isn't very complex.

Normal kernel policy is not to merge something if it has no users. As
i said in another reply, the only users of regmap-mdio are going to be
Ethernet switch and funky mdio devices. So far, i've not seen a C45
Ethernet switch, nor a funky c45 mdio device. So i suggest we leave it
on the mainline list until some hardware which could use it comes
along.

	Andrew