Re: [PATCH 1/7] Documentation: dt: net: Update the ath9k binding for SoC devices

From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Alban <albeu@free.fr>,
	QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com>,
	John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	m@kresin.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Documentation: dt: net: Update the ath9k binding for SoC devices
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:09:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5695498.VIMxqRcvSt@debian64> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170328164159.GB29742@lunn.ch>

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