On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 6:41:59 PM CEST Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Oh, in that case you should probably go "all out" and ask on the > > LKML to remove all of the ath9k and ath10k ahb work. From what I > > know all the "users" are running some sort of OpenWRT/LEDE or a > > derivative. This is because Atheros/QCA provided a SDK based on > > OpenWRT. > > > > Alban has been trying to convert the platform to device-tree > > and add them to the mainline for a while now: > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6514551/ > > > > So, you are questioning this work as well. > > Not at all. Ralph Sennhauser has been doing a great job of getting all > the Marvell devices into Mainline, and i help as much as i can, being > one of the Marvell SoC Maintainers. > > I'm just saying, get a few boards which require these facilities into > the mainline, and then you have a much stronger base to argue from. I was arguing not to deprecate "qca,no-eeprom" property. based on this quote from Linus' <https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/16/995>: |if a new interface is truly more flexible, then it should be able |to implement the old interface with no changes, so that drivers |shouldn't need to be changed/upgraded. what stronger point to do you want? Thanks, Christian
