Re: [RFC PATCH v4 net-next 00/23] add support for VSC75XX control over SPI

From: Colin Foster
Date: Tue Nov 16 2021 - 10:05:53 EST


On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:23:05PM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:
> > My apologies for this next RFC taking so long. Life got in the way.
> >
> >
> > The patch set in general is to add support for the VSC7511, VSC7512,
> > VSC7513 and VSC7514 devices controlled over SPI. The driver is
> > relatively functional for the internal phy ports (0-3) on the VSC7512.
> > As I'll discuss, it is not yet functional for other ports yet.
>
>
> Since series touches fwnode, please Cc next time to Daniel Scally.

Thank you. I will do this next time.

For my future reference, is there a way that I could have known this? Or
is this just knowledge that comes with experience? The email list I got
was from running the patch set through get_maintainers.

> It also appears [1] that somewhere in PHY code a bug is hidden
> (at least I think so).

Thank you for this information. I'll keep an eye out!

>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211113204141.520924-1-djrscally@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>