lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2023]   [Jan]   [19]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH net 2/2] net: dsa: microchip: lan937x: run phy initialization during each link update
Date
Hi Vladimir,
Thanks for the comments.

> 1. Don't prefix a patch with "net: dsa: microchip: " unless it
> touches
>    the drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ folder.
>
> 2. Don't make unrelated patches on different drivers part of the same
>    patch set.
>
I will update the patch in next revision.

> 3. AFAIU, this is the second fixup of a feature which never worked
> well
>    (changing master/slave setting through ethtool). Not sure exactly
>    what are the rules, but at some point, maintainers might say
>    "hey, let go, this never worked, just send your fixes to net-
> next".
>    I mean: (1) fixes of fixes of smth that never worked can't be sent
> ad
>    infinitum, especially if not small and (2) there needs to be some
>    incentive to submit code that actually works and was tested,
> rather
>    than a placeholder which can be fixed up later, right? In this
> case,
>    I'm not sure, this seems borderline net-next. Let's see what the
> PHY
>    library maintainers think.
>

Thanks for pointing this out. Do you think submitting this patch in
net-next is the right way?

@andrew,
Do you have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Rakesh S.
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2023-03-26 23:47    [W:0.067 / U:0.020 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site