linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: phy: at803x: add QCA8084 ethernet phy support

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Message-ID: <ec002e99-a9c1-4e61-ac1f-f87d0bbd7a38@quicinc.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 21:25:21 +0800
From: Jie Luo <quic_luoj@...cinc.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Vladimir Oltean
	<olteanv@...il.com>
CC: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>, <andrew@...n.ch>,
        <hkallweit1@...il.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: phy: at803x: add QCA8084 ethernet phy support



On 1/2/2024 10:37 PM, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 09:51:20PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 01:42:20PM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 01:58:52AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
>>>>  From 17fd68123d78f39a971f800de6da66522f71dc71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
>>>> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 22:16:25 +0300
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net: phylink: move phylink_pcs_neg_mode() to phylink.c
>>>>
>>>> Russell points out that there is no user of phylink_pcs_neg_mode()
>>>> outside of phylink.c, nor is there planned to be any, so we can just
>>>> move it there.
>>>
>>> Looks familiar...
>>>
>>> http://git.armlinux.org.uk/cgit/linux-arm.git/commit/?h=net-queue&id=c2aa9d3846c218d28a8a3457b0447998b0d84c5d
>>
>> Well, yeah, I did mention that the patch was written at your suggestion,
>> and there aren't that many options in which that patch can be written.
>> I didn't look at your trees, and I made that change as part of a much
>> larger effort which involves phylink, which I will email you separately
>> about.
>>
>> I will gladly drop my ownership on the first patch and ask Luo Jie to
>> pick your version instead, if this is what you're implying from the 2
>> word reply.
> 
> The reason that I hadn't submitted it was because I didn't want to move
> the function out of the header file until the next LTS was released.
> 
> It seems 6.6 was announced as a LTS on the 17th November, so I'm happier
> to now proceed with moving this into phylink.c.
> 
> as phylink_pcs_neg_mode() was merged in 6.5-rc1, it will have had three
> kernel cycles - including one each side of the LTS release which I think
> is reasonable.
> 
> I will send my patch hopefully sometime this week so it's in 6.8
> depending on pressures.
> 

Thanks for updating the information.