Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: use swnode fixed-link if using default params

From: Andy Shevchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 21:59:25 +0300

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 10:36:29PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:11:18PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 05:01:48PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

...

> > > Co-developed by Vladimir Oltean and myself.
> > 
> > Why not to use
> > 
> >   Co-developed-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email-masked]>
> 
> Ah, that's an official thing. Thanks.

Yep, it's even documented in Submitting Patches.

...

> > > +	phy_node = of_parse_phandle(dn, "phy-handle", 0);
> > 
> > fwnode in the name, why not to use fwnode APIs?
> > 
> > 	fwnode_find_reference();
> 
> Marcin has a series converting DSA to use fwnode things - currently DSA
> does not support ACPI, so converting it to fwnode doesn't make that much
> sese until the proper ACPI patches get merged, which have now been
> rebased on this series by Marcin in the expectation that these patches
> would be merged... so I don't want to tred on Marcin's feet on that.

But it's normal development process...

Anyway, it seems to me that you are using fwnode out of that (with the
exception of one call). To me it looks that you add a work to him, rather
than making his life easier, since you know ahead that this is going to be
converted.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko