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Message-ID: <738f69e6-1e8d-4acc-adfa-9592505723fe@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:53:19 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>, Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: drop clocks unused by
Ethernet driver
On 7/30/24 04:06, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:23 +0100 Daniel Golle wrote:
>> Clocks for SerDes and PHY are going to be handled by standalone drivers
>> for each of those hardware components. Drop them from the Ethernet driver.
>>
>> The clocks which are being removed for this patch are responsible for
>> the for the SerDes PCS and PHYs used for the 2nd and 3rd MAC which are
>> anyway not yet supported. Hence backwards compatibility is not an issue.
>
> What user visible issue is it fixing, then?
Indeed this looks like more a cleanup than a fix. @Daniel why net-next
without fixes tag is not a suitable target here?
Thanks!
Paolo
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