netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phylink: warn if deprecated array-style fixed-link binding is used

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Message-ID: <30e08158-46bd-4426-a521-a7d8af1f7370@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:29:25 +0200
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
 "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phylink: warn if deprecated array-style
 fixed-link binding is used

On 9/9/2025 11:27 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 09:16:36PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> The array-style fixed-link binding has been marked deprecated for more
>> than 10 yrs, but still there's a number of users. Print a warning when
>> usage of the deprecated binding is detected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> 
> It should be a pretty mechanical transformation to convert them. How
> many are there?
> 

At first I looked only at the Arm DT's, but there are more users of the
old binding under arch/powerpc. In total it's 24 users.

arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8313erdb.dts:                  fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/tqm8xx.dts:                               fixed-link = <0 0 10 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8378_rdb.dts:                  fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mgcoge.dts:                               fixed-link = <0 0 10 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8308rdb.dts:                   fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8377_rdb.dts:                  fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8379_rdb.dts:                  fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/mpc8349emitx.dts:                 fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1020rdb-pd.dts:                      fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1020rdb-pc.dtsi:             fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1025rdb.dtsi:                fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1020mbg-pc.dtsi:             fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t104xqds.dtsi:                                fixed-link = <0 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t104xqds.dtsi:                                fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1021rdb-pc.dtsi:             fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p2020rdb.dts:                 fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p2020rdb-pc.dtsi:             fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t1040rdb.dts:                         fixed-link = <0 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/t1040rdb.dts:                         fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/p1020rdb.dtsi:                fixed-link = <1 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/charon.dts:                       fixed-link = <1 1 100 0 0>;
arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/fsl-ls1043a-qds.dts:              fixed-link = <1 1 10000 0 0>;
arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/ls/ls1021a-iot.dts:       fixed-link = <0 1 1000 0 0>;
arch/arm/boot/dts/st/stih418-b2199.dts:                 fixed-link = <0 1 1000 0 0>;

> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> 
>     Andrew