Re: [PATCH PRELIMINARY 0/5] arm64: dts: qcom: shikra: add Ethernet support

[Mohd Ayaan Anwar]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 10:42:40AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 08/09/2026 09:39, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 12:53:46PM +0530, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 09:14:45AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>> On 08/09/2026 09:04, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:
> >>>> The only reason I added a PRELIMINARY tag was because these DTS changes
> >>>> should go in after the driver changes and dt-bindings.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> DTS cannot go after the driver changes. If that is your requirement,
> >>> then original work is broken and needs to be fixed.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I should have worded it better. I am only worried about the dt-bindings
> >> going in before this DTS. The driver changes just add support for
> >> whatever we are desribing in this series, they can go in after
> >> dt-bindings and DTS without any issues.
> >>
> > 
> > ...would it be preferable to instead have the split like this?
> > 
> >   - This series + dt-bindings (on top of linux-next)
> >   - Only driver changes from [1] (for net-next)
> 
> No, because it would be against explicit documented rules in the kernel
> and against clear guidelines and recent discussions within Qualcomm. I
> wonder why did we have these long discussions about Shikra if only a few
> people were listening and the rest will be repeating the same broken
> process as before?
> 

Understood, thanks. I'll keep the current split (bindings + driver to
net-next, DTS separate for the SoC tree).

	Ayaan