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Message-ID: <ZNkQFwvm_sNiVDRO@makrotopia.org>
Date:   Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:17:11 +0100
From:   Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Qingfang Deng <dqfext@...il.com>,
        SkyLake Huang <SkyLake.Huang@...iatek.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: phy: mediatek-ge-soc: support PHY LEDs

Hi Andrew,

thank you for reviewing my patch!

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Hi Daniel
> 
> > This requires syscon phandle 'mediatek,pio' present in parenting MDIO bus
> > which should point to the syscon holding the boottrap register.
> 
> If i'm reading the code correct, if this property is missing, the PHY
> will fail to probe? Since this was never a mandatory property, it
> looks like this will break old DT blobs?

As the for-upstream-Linux dtsi for the MediaTek MT7988 SoC is still in
the making there aren't any existing DT blobs we'd want to be compatible
with at this point.

> 
> If there are LED properties, then it should be mandatory, otherwise it
> should be optional. That way you keep backwards compatibility with old
> blobs.

Do you still want me to check for the presence of any led properties
before looking for the syscon phandle?
As in: would you like to have it that way anyway even if compatibility
is not an issue?


Cheers


Daniel

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