Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 08/29] net: dsa: microchip: look for phy-mode in port nodes

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 07:56:30AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 03:30:05AM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Helmut Grohne <helmut.grohne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit edecfa98f602a597666e3c5cab2677ada38d93c5 ]
> >
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dsa/dsa.txt says that the phy-mode
> > property should be specified on port nodes. However, the microchip
> > drivers read it from the switch node.
> >
> > Let the driver use the per-port property and fall back to the old
> > location with a warning.
> >
> > Fix in-tree users.
>
> I don't think this patch is useful for stable users. It corrects a
> device tree layout issue. Any existing users of the functionality will
> have an odd, but working device tree and that will continue working
> (with a warning) after applying this patch. It just has a property on
> the "wrong" node. I don't think I'd like to update my device tree in a
> stable update.

I've dropped it, thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha