netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: fixed

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Message-ID: <20250903173204.3ca4969e@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 17:32:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, David Miller
 <davem@...emloft.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: remove link gpio
 support

On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 20:37:02 +0200 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The only user of fixed_phy gpio functionality was here:
> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/vf610-zii-dev-rev-b.dts
> Support for the switch on this board was migrated to phylink
> (DSA - mv88e6xxx) years ago, so the functionality is unused now.
> Therefore remove it.

Sorry if I'm mixing things up and misunderstanding.
There was a recent conversation regarding backward compat
with device trees. Was it related to this patch? Is the policy 
that we only care about in-tree device trees?
Would it make sense to document in the commit message?