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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:27:52 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Rakesh.Sankaranarayanan@...rochip.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: dsa: microchip: lan937x: run phy
initialization during each link update
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:34:00AM +0000, Rakesh.Sankaranarayanan@...rochip.com wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> > 1. Don't prefix a patch with "net: dsa: microchip: " unless it
> > touches
> > the drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ folder.
> >
> > 2. Don't make unrelated patches on different drivers part of the same
> > patch set.
> >
> I will update the patch in next revision.
>
> > 3. AFAIU, this is the second fixup of a feature which never worked
> > well
> > (changing master/slave setting through ethtool). Not sure exactly
> > what are the rules, but at some point, maintainers might say
> > "hey, let go, this never worked, just send your fixes to net-
> > next".
> > I mean: (1) fixes of fixes of smth that never worked can't be sent
> > ad
> > infinitum, especially if not small and (2) there needs to be some
> > incentive to submit code that actually works and was tested,
> > rather
> > than a placeholder which can be fixed up later, right? In this
> > case,
> > I'm not sure, this seems borderline net-next. Let's see what the
> > PHY
> > library maintainers think.
> >
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. Do you think submitting this patch in
> net-next is the right way?
I would probably go for net-next. That will give it more soak time to
find the next way it is broken....
You might find i gets back ported to stable anyway, due to the ML bot
spotting it.
Andrew
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