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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:22:06 +0100
From: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: drop clocks unused by
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:53:19AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On 7/30/24 04:06, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:23 +0100 Daniel Golle wrote:
> > > Clocks for SerDes and PHY are going to be handled by standalone drivers
> > > for each of those hardware components. Drop them from the Ethernet driver.
> > > 
> > > The clocks which are being removed for this patch are responsible for
> > > the for the SerDes PCS and PHYs used for the 2nd and 3rd MAC which are
> > > anyway not yet supported. Hence backwards compatibility is not an issue.
> > 
> > What user visible issue is it fixing, then?
> 
> Indeed this looks like more a cleanup than a fix. @Daniel why net-next
> without fixes tag is not a suitable target here?

There is no user visible issue. I didn't know that this would be the
condition for going into 'net'. I will resend the patch to net-next.