Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] mfd: Add RTL8231 core device

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On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:28 AM Sander Vanheule <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 00:18 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:28 PM Sander Vanheule <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The RTL8231 is implemented as an MDIO device, and provides a regmap
> > > interface for register access by the core and child devices.
> > >
> > > The chip can also be a device on an SMI bus, an I2C-like bus by Realtek.
> > > Since kernel support for SMI is limited, and no real-world SMI
> > > implementations have been encountered for this device, this is currently
> > > unimplemented. The use of the regmap interface should make any future
> > > support relatively straightforward.
> > >
> > > After reset, all pins are muxed to GPIO inputs before the pin drivers
> > > are enabled. This is done to prevent accidental system resets, when a
> > > pin is connected to the parent SoC's reset line.
> >
> > > [missing MDIO_BUS dependency, provided via REGMAP_MDIO]
> > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What is the culprit? Shouldn't this have a Fixes tag?
>
> But it doesn't actually fix an issue created by an existing commit, just
> something that was wrong in the first version of the patch.

Then why is it in the tag block?
If you want to give a credit to LKP, do it in the comments block
(after '---' cutter line).

>  This patch is not
> dedicated to fixing that single issue though, it's just a part of it. Hence the
> note above the Reported-by tag.

--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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