netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] net: phy: remove support for deprecated array-style fixed-link binding

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Message-ID: <0bb79103-d9e3-4386-b362-e9d5e9931cc7@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 22:03:47 +0200
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/5] net: phy: remove support for deprecated
 array-style fixed-link binding

On 8/30/2025 9:28 PM, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The array-style fixed-link binding has been marked deprecated for more
> than 10 yrs. See e.g. 91c1d980d601 ("Documentation: devicetree: add old
> and deprecated 'fixed-link'") from 2014.
> 
> So migrate the remaining few in-kernel users of the old binding,
> and remove for it.
> 
> v2:
> - fix "Properties must precede subnodes" error in patches 1 and 2
> 
> Heiner Kallweit (5):
>   arm64: dts: ls1043a-qds: switch to new fixed-link binding
>   ARM: dts: ls1021a: switch to new fixed-link binding
>   ARM: dts: st: switch to new fixed-link binding
>   net: mdio: remove support for old fixed-link binding
>   net: phy: phylink: remove support for deprecated fixed-link binding
> 
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/ls/ls1021a-iot.dts      |  5 +++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/st/stih418-b2199.dts        |  5 +++-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/st/stihxxx-b2120.dtsi       |  5 +++-
>  .../boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a-qds.dts    |  5 +++-
>  drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c                    | 26 -------------------
>  drivers/net/phy/phylink.c                     | 25 +-----------------
>  6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> 
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