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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] net: hisi_femac: remove unused compatible strings
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On 2/16/2024 4:26 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 16/02/2024 09:21, Yang Xiwen wrote:
>> On 2/16/2024 3:20 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 16/02/2024 00:48, Yang Xiwen via B4 Relay wrote:
>>>> From: Yang Xiwen <forbidden405@outlook.com>
>>>>
>>>> These compatible strings are not found in any mainline dts, remove them.
>>> That's not a real reason. What about all other users?
>> The people who want their devices being supported should post a working
>> dts first. Having found the dts missing is strongly telling me that this
> Considering how poor HiSilicon contributions were - in numbers and
> quality - that's kind of expected. :(
>
>
>> SoC(Hi3516) is orphan and EOL already. I can't even find it in git
>> commit logs. I'll argue that the old binding is simply wrong, and does
>> not describe the hardware properly. Who knows? Could anyone tell me if
>> the driver is still working for Hi3516 or not? I'm very willing to keep
>> the backward compatibility if someone can tell me the effort i paid to
>> maintain the old binding really makes sense. But the only things i found
>> in mainline kernel about Hi3516 is an CRG(clock) driver and this femac
>> driver. And it's been 8 years since last update for this SoC.
> OK, that's fine with me, but please add parts of this explanation to the
> commit msg (SoC is EOL, driver looks buggy and might not even work,
> platform was upstreamed 8 years ago and no maintenance work happened on
> it, thus it looks abandoned etc.).

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.

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>

--
Regards,
Yang Xiwen


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