netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: phy: fixed

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Message-ID: <aLl_9UvW84gurxCg@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 13:03:01 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: remove link gpio support

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 08:08:18AM +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.
> 
> Note: There is a very small risk that there's out-of-tree users
> who use link gpio with a switch chip not handled by DSA.
> However we care about in-tree device trees only.
> 
> Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@...linux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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