Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 2/5] net: lan743x: Add support to software-nodes for sfp

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:34:20 +0100

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 05:19:37PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:08:40PM +0530, Raju Lakkaraju wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > The 09/11/2024 19:17, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe
> > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/Kconfig
> > > > index 2e3eb37a45cd..9c08a4af257a 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ config LAN743X
> > > >       select CRC16
> > > >       select CRC32
> > > >       select PHYLINK
> > > > +     select I2C_PCI1XXXX
> > > > +     select GP_PCI1XXXX
> > > 
> > > GP_ is odd. GPIO drivers usually use GPIO_. Saying that, GPIO_PCI1XXXX
> > > is not in 6.11-rc7. Is it in gpio-next?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes. But GPIO driver developer use this.
> 
> And the GPIO Maintainer accepted this, despite it not being the same
> as every other GPIO driver?
> 
> Ah, there is no Acked-by: from anybody i recognise as a GPIO
> maintainer. Was it even reviewed by GPIO people? And why is it hiding
> in driver/misc? I don't see any reason it cannot be in drivers/gpio,
> which is where i looked for it. There are other auxiliary_driver in
> drivers/gpio.

What's worse is that the Link: in the commit adding it doesn't
work!

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