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

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:05:25 +0000
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Yang Xiwen <forbidden405@...look.com>,
	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

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:01:08PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > 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.

Just to note, the U-Boot folk are currently working on a model where
they will be importing the kernel's dts files directly into their tree
along with the bindings. I think they're adding dtbs_check too.
Although that will be opt-in per board, it does point to an increased
desire for compliance there too, which is great.

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