Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] stmmac: platform: add "snps,dwmac-5.10a" IP compatible string

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 18:05:37 +0200

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:00:29PM +0000, Andy Duan wrote:
> From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 10:11 PM
> > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:22:25PM +0800, Fugang Duan wrote:
> > > Add "snps,dwmac-5.10a" compatible string for 5.10a version that can
> > > avoid to define some plat data in glue layer.
> > 
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml ?
> > 
> >       Andrew
> 
> Here, we don't want to use generic driver "dwmac-generic.c" for 5.10a version
> since it requires platform specific code to be functional, like the we implement
> glue layer driver "dwmac-imx.c" to support 5.10a on i.MX platform.
> 
> So I think it doesn't require to add the compatible string into dwmac.yaml. 

Hi Andy

It needs to be documented somewhere. If not
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/snps,dwmac.yaml it needs to be
in an NXP specific document.

   Andrew

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