Re: [net PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: only enable WED for ARM64 architecture

Re: [net PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: only enable WED for ARM64 architecture

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- [Medium] Inappropriate `Fixes:` tag: the commit claims to fix
  804775dfc288 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add support for Wireless…

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net: ethernet: mediatek: only enable WED for ARM64 architecture

This narrows the dependency of the hidden def_bool symbol
NET_MEDIATEK_SOC_WED so it is only enabled on ARM64 ARCH_MEDIATEK
builds, on the grounds that only MT7622 and MT798x implement WED.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig
> index 2ba361f8ce7d..7737f2f15478 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig

>     Fixes: 804775dfc288 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add support for Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED)")

[Severity: Medium]

Is the Fixes: tag appropriate here?  The changelog does not describe a
defect, only a hardware-scope observation and a prediction:

    Currently, only MT7622 and MT798x SoCs support WED features. They
    are all ARM64 platforms. And it is unlikely that MediaTek will
    release a new net chip based on ARM32 architecture in the future.

As far as I can tell nothing misbehaves on 32-bit today.  WED is only
instantiated when the ethernet DT node carries a mediatek,wed phandle:

drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/mtk_eth_soc.c:mtk_probe() {
	...
	np = of_parse_phandle(pdev->dev.of_node,
			      "mediatek,wed", i);
	if (!np)
		break;
	...
	mtk_wed_add_hw(np, eth, eth->base + wdma_base, wdma_phy, i);
	...
}

and git grep wed arch/arm/boot/dts/mediatek returns no matches, so no
32-bit MediaTek platform can reach mtk_wed_add_hw().

There also does not appear to be any 64-bit-only construct that a
depends on ARM64 would be repairing: mtk_wed.c, mtk_wed_wo.c,
mtk_wed_mcu.c and mtk_wed.h contain no readq/writeq, no >> 32 address
splitting and no CONFIG_64BIT conditionals (the only CONFIG_64BIT use in
the directory is in mtk_eth_soc.h, which this symbol does not gate).

> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
>  if NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
>  
>  config NET_MEDIATEK_SOC_WED
> -	depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
> +	depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64) || COMPILE_TEST
>  	def_bool NET_MEDIATEK_SOC != n

Since the Fixes: tag makes this a candidate for stable backporting, could
this silently flip a config symbol in released kernels?  On a stable tree
with 32-bit ARCH_MEDIATEK, the depends on line becomes false and
NET_MEDIATEK_SOC_WED is a hidden def_bool, so make olddefconfig drops
mtk_wed*.o from the build with no prompt or warning.

Would it make sense to drop the Fixes: tag and describe this as a build
scope cleanup instead?

One more question on the ARM64 condition itself: if something in the WED
code really is not buildable on 32-bit, does the || COMPILE_TEST branch
leave that unaddressed, since it still builds the identical code on
non-ARM64 targets?

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Re: [net PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: only enable WED for ARM64 architecture

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:03:12 +0000 netdev-bot+sashiko@kernel.org wrote:
> Is the Fixes: tag appropriate here?  The changelog does not describe a
> defect, only a hardware-scope observation and a prediction:
> 
>     Currently, only MT7622 and MT798x SoCs support WED features. They
>     are all ARM64 platforms. And it is unlikely that MediaTek will
>     release a new net chip based on ARM32 architecture in the future.
> 
> As far as I can tell nothing misbehaves on 32-bit today.

Not just the fixes tag, the whole commit seems rather pointless.
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pw-bot: reject

[net PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: only enable WED for ARM64 architecture

[Shiji Yang]

Currently, only MT7622 and MT798x SoCs support WED features. They
are all ARM64 platforms. And it is unlikely that MediaTek will
release a new net chip based on ARM32 architecture in the future.

Fixes: 804775dfc288 ("net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: add support for Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED)")
Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66@outlook.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig
index 2ba361f8ce7d..7737f2f15478 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mediatek/Kconfig
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ config NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
 if NET_VENDOR_MEDIATEK
 
 config NET_MEDIATEK_SOC_WED
-	depends on ARCH_MEDIATEK || COMPILE_TEST
+	depends on (ARCH_MEDIATEK && ARM64) || COMPILE_TEST
 	def_bool NET_MEDIATEK_SOC != n
 
 config NET_MEDIATEK_SOC
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