From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E8BC182; Wed, 7 May 2025 12:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746621052; cv=none; b=R+4CsNH3qE42P8r8XgZJ7sexRUVrBfeMvVMxvYrFS9gEP+RZ2qm7iJb79BUr81OlyfFFVDtIAFgI/tXgVy9koX3z3j4izyTKuZxYMdtRkFJ3jdYqhCejwq4HyaHQVBHomsoSCKb5RQhYIARlD9ujmWYjvoEQHI1ckpOh3GspPd0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1746621052; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Vxx0ACGp24sVEd5SknbWJ5uvARr7Cg9cs0xZD85ZQPI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=TOlOzuYVew+ue/AuoPgMSMqp+o18ftxZ+1t5LH//17CJCk0jQNMEAzbrauAexxNpEHp5cg9UYHpKHqMT87kL4cdjTN4te7XlxuUcZrM6SIZCdnv9B02HlBQSNrXjdXwO2vgv7J6OFy6Cli9ztDOwvFeB6wJk+tzssVA3ioEiJcc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=Y8MMpzSD; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="Y8MMpzSD" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=cPP8m0+ZommNldXRYZax/cEqIRhtEpGo2CITzC/JUH0=; b=Y8MMpzSDzRMbLUu84SadJnxduB ePjoEcOS7thXdPHJO5F65rZWdmdbWL2Y0gNkcRXc7o4LOSANkwZ0zevQJ3ih9RSpDYIOJoZfiNJzo Z4M66AORgEhpb3VAxghF4mOgk+oXGSPMrhxwGblYTLg3242EOaupHg/keO/wM686Swn8=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uCdv8-00BsVe-50; Wed, 07 May 2025 14:30:42 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 14:30:42 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Heiner Kallweit Cc: Mark Brown , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Sander Vanheule , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: remove MDIO support Message-ID: References: <59109ac3-808d-4d65-baf6-40199124db3b@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > On 07.05.2025 08:21, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 08:09:27AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > >> On 07.05.2025 02:50, Mark Brown wrote: > >>> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 10:06:00PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote: > > > >>>> MDIO regmap support was added with 1f89d2fe1607 as only patch from a > >>>> series. The rest of the series wasn't applied. Therefore MDIO regmap > >>>> has never had a user. > > > >>> Is it causing trouble, or is this just a cleanup? > > > >> It's merely a cleanup. The only thing that otherwise would need > > > > If it's not getting in the way I'd rather leave it there in case someone > > wants it, that way I don't need to get CCed into some other series > > again. > > > Understood. On the other hand is has been sitting idle for 4 yrs now. It is something that a PCS driver could use. They are sometimes memory mapped rather than being on an MDIO bus. Using a regmap could hide that difference. Andrew