Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 2/4] net: stmmac: eic7700: enable clocks before syscon access and correct RX sampling timing

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:35:51 -0700

On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:43:50 +0800 (GMT+08:00) 李志 wrote:
> > Why Fixes? If eth1 never worked this is not a fix but new functionality
> > If you want to make this a fix to prevent incompatibility - cut it down
> > just to the eth0 changes.
> >   
> Thank you for the suggestion.
> 
> You're right that eth1 never worked at Gigabit speed, so this should
> not be treated as a fix.
> 
> In v8, I will split the changes into two patches within the same series:
> - Patch 1 will contain only the fixes affecting the existing eth0
> functionality, and will keep the Fixes tag.
> - Patch 2 will add the eth1 support (RX clock inversion workaround)
> as new functionality, without a Fixes tag.
> 
> Please let me know if you would prefer a different split or ordering.

If you want to consider some part of this commit a fix it has to be
posted separately to the net tree (rather than net-next).
Once it's merged and makes it way over to the net-next tree (each
Thursday) you can post the net-next chnages for eth1