Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] Add eqos and fec support for imx93

From: Shawn Guo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:02:16 +0800

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:27:56AM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 11:33 +0800, Clark Wang wrote:
> > This patchset add imx93 support for dwmac-imx glue driver.
> > There are some changes of GPR implement.
> > And add fec and eqos nodes for imx93 dts.
> > 
> > Clark Wang (7):
> >   net: stmmac: add imx93 platform support
> >   dt-bindings: add mx93 description
> >   dt-bindings: net: fec: add mx93 description
> >   arm64: dts: imx93: add eqos support
> >   arm64: dts: imx93: add FEC support
> >   arm64: dts: imx93-11x11-evk: enable eqos
> >   arm64: dts: imx93-11x11-evk: enable fec function
> > 
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/net/fsl,fec.yaml      |  1 +
> >  .../bindings/net/nxp,dwmac-imx.yaml           |  4 +-
> >  .../boot/dts/freescale/imx93-11x11-evk.dts    | 78 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx93.dtsi      | 48 ++++++++++++
> >  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-imx.c   | 55 +++++++++++--
> >  5 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> It's not clear to me if the whole series should go via netdev. I
> think/fear such option could cause later conflicts for Linus. Does it
> make sense to split this in 2 chunks, and have only the first 3 patches
> merged via netdev?

I share the same concern here.

David,

Could you *not* apply DTS patches in the future?  People often include
driver changes and corresponding DTS ones in a single series to ease
cross reviewing and testing.  If picking selected patches from a series
could a problem for your applying robot, we should probably start asking
people to split change-sets.

Shawn