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

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Message-ID: <Z9qk9xOuNFawFhCq@bogus>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:05:27 +0000
From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
	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 06:12:21PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry for that. I admit this patch unlike other patches in the series is
not dependent on the macro introduced in 1/8. I should have posted this
independent of the series, my bad. I will do that. Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep