linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] net: phy: fixed_phy: transition to the faux device interface

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Message-ID: <5ded6e25-111b-4771-9be2-46cfbee27932@lunn.ch>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:12:21 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] net: phy: fixed_phy: transition to the faux
 device interface

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 05:01:46PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The net fixed phy driver does not require the creation of a platform
> device. Originally, this approach was chosen for simplicity when the
> driver was first implemented.
> 
> With the introduction of the lightweight faux device interface, we now
> have a more appropriate alternative. Migrate the device to utilize the
> faux bus, given that the platform device it previously created was not
> a real one anyway. This will get rid of the fake platform device.

You were asked to split this up by subsystem. So why is this 8/8?
There are not 7 other patches for netdev.

Please also take a read of:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html

    Andrew

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