Hello, On 16/11/2021 12:52:28+0100, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > The 11/16/2021 17:13, Vinod Koul wrote: > > EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe > > > > On 16-11-21, 11:56, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > The 11/16/2021 16:15, Vinod Koul wrote: > > > > > > > > On 16-11-21, 11:21, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > > > The 11/16/2021 11:08, Horatiu Vultur wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Kison, Vinod, > > > > > > > > > > Can you let me know if you have more comments to this patch series? > > > > > Otherwise can you ack on it? Because I would like to have the patches > > > > > merged via netdev if that is OK for you. > > > > > > > > Any reason for merge thru netdev, there is no dependency and now with > > > > merge window closed, I can pick this up.. > > > > > > Because I would like to send some patches for the lan966x network driver. > > > And these network patches depend on the serdes driver. > > > > There cant be a compile time dependency... the network driver can use > > the phy apis.. I dont think it is required here... Did I miss something > > obvious? > > You are right, there is no compile time dependency and the network > driver can use the PHY APIs. > > But at runtime the network driver will need to configure the serdes > using the PHY API to be able to work properly. > It is fine if it doesn't work at runtime with only one branch, both will get merged in linux-next and you can test with that if necessary. I'll let both series go through separate trees. -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
