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Message-ID: <Zqi-zr32ZXl0AyzR@makrotopia.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:22:06 +0100
From: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 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 Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:53:19AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> 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?

There is no user visible issue. I didn't know that this would be the
condition for going into 'net'. I will resend the patch to net-next.

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