linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: hisi_femac: remove unused compatible strings

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:01:08 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Yang Xiwen <forbidden405@...look.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
	Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
	Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
	Yang Xiwen <forbidden405@...mail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] net: hisi_femac: remove unused compatible strings

> For me, it's a bit lucky to find a (partially) working driver in mainline.
> It'll take me even more time if no mainline driver is available. In fact, i
> wrote the driver for mainline u-boot from scratch and it has been merged. So
> it's good to have this binding accepted unmodified, or i'll have to modify
> u-boot side driver code to keep them sync.

Sorry, but that is not how it works. If during review we decided it
needs to be modified, you will need to modify it.

I would suggest you first mainstream bindings to the kernel, because
it has active DT maintainers how really care about bindings. Then get
is merged to u-boot.

   Andrew