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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:43:16 +0800
From: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@...il.com>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dt-bindings: net: Add support for Sophgo SG2044
dwmac
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 28/10/2024 08:16, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 08:06:25AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 28/10/2024 00:32, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2024 at 09:38:00PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:09:58AM +0800, Inochi Amaoto wrote:
> >>>>> The GMAC IP on SG2044 is almost a standard Synopsys DesignWare MAC
> >>>>> with some extra clock.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Add necessary compatible string for this device.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@...il.com>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> This should be squashed with a corrected previous patch
> >>>
> >>> Good, I will.
> >>>
> >>>> (why do you need to select snps,dwmac-5.30a?),
> >>>
> >>> The is because the driver use the fallback versioned compatible
> >>> string to set up some common arguments. (This is what the patch
> >>
> >> Nope. Driver never relies on schema doing select. That's just incorrect.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I make a mistake on understanding you. For me, I just followed
> > what others do. But there is a comment before this select.
> >
> > """
> > Select every compatible, including the deprecated ones. This way, we
> > will be able to report a warning when we have that compatible, since
> > we will validate the node thanks to the select, but won't report it
> > as a valid value in the compatible property description
> > """
> >
> > By reading this, I think there may be some historical reason? Maybe
> > someone can explain this.
>
> I think this is left-over from older times before all specific
> compatibles were added here and in their bindings. This binding has been
> waiting for some cleanup for a while now, so this is fine.
>
> I still think the patches should be merged, though.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
Thanks, I will squash this patch in the next version
Regards,
Inochi
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