Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select SMSC_PHY
From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 22:59:00 EST
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:16:50PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 14:43 +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> > Hi Leonard,
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 04:27:37PM +0200, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> > >
> > > The imx6sl-evk board has a LAN8720A ethernet phy supported by SMSC_PHY.
> > > Add this driver to the default imx config since the device is present on
> > > one of the evaluation boards.
> > Upstream currently no evaluation board support.
> >
> > This may leave to Shawn to decide whether apply it.
>
> Really? But the dts for this eval board is included in upstream. Shouldn't the
> default config try to work with the default imx*.dts files included?
>
> > > This used to work mostly fine with the generic phy driver but since
> > > commit 0878fff1f42c18e448ab5b8b4f6a3eb32365b5b6 that driver no longer
> > I guess you should get a checkpatch error here.
>
> Because I didn't reference that other commit right? Sorry about this.
>
> Should I submit again with an improved commit message?
Yes, please, and make sure that checkpatch.pl is happy about the patch.
Shawn