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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] net: hisi_femac: remove unused compatible strings
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:01:08PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > For me, it's a bit lucky to find a (partially) working driver in mainline.
> > It'll take me even more time if no mainline driver is available. In fact, i
> > wrote the driver for mainline u-boot from scratch and it has been merged. So
> > it's good to have this binding accepted unmodified, or i'll have to modify
> > u-boot side driver code to keep them sync.
>
> Sorry, but that is not how it works. If during review we decided it
> needs to be modified, you will need to modify it.
>
> I would suggest you first mainstream bindings to the kernel, because
> it has active DT maintainers how really care about bindings. Then get
> is merged to u-boot.

Just to note, the U-Boot folk are currently working on a model where
they will be importing the kernel's dts files directly into their tree
along with the bindings. I think they're adding dtbs_check too.
Although that will be opt-in per board, it does point to an increased
desire for compliance there too, which is great.
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