Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v6 2/7] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: use generic device properties

[Andrew Lunn]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 01:36:53PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:15:41AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > In order to drop the dependency on CONFIG_OF, convert all device property
> > > getters from OF-specific to generic device properties and stop pulling
> > > in any linux/of.h symbols.
> >
> > Is the intention to read these properties from ACPI tables?
> >
> 
> No. Other than a couple property getters which can use the fwnode
> abstraction, there's nothing here that requires the OF dependence.

So what is the need for not using OF? Why do you want this patch?

    Andrew