Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mdio-gpio: remove support for platform data

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 2:42 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There are no more board files defining platform data for this driver so
> > remove the header and drop the support.
>
> There are a number of out of tree x86 boards which use this, flying in
> various aircraft, so have a long life, and do get kernel updates.
>
> I'm happy to support this code, and as a PHYLIB Maintainer, it adds
> little overhead to my maintenance works. If you really insist, i can
> try to get code added to drivers/platform/x86/ which use this.
>

We typically don't care about out-of-tree board files upstream. Having
users for this struct in mainline would of course be great and a
perfect reason to keep it.

Bart