From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Dan Callaghan <dan.callaghan@opengear.com>,
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson@oss.nxp.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, Jon <jon@solid-run.com>,
Cristi Sovaiala <cristian.sovaiala@nxp.com>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@oss.nxp.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "linux.cj" <linux.cj@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v7 1/6] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:14:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200731151444.GI1712415@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VejnW23LEfyEO6Py8=e3_W0YMomk8jQ3JQeHqYcaeDitg@mail.gmail.com>
> > > DT can be used on x86, and i suspect it is a much easier path of least
> > > resistance.
> >
> > And you can easily overlay Device Tree to an existing system by using
> > either a full Device Tree overlay (dtbo) or using CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC and
> > creating nodes on the fly.
>
> Why do you need DT on a system that runs without it and Linux has all
> means to extend to cover a lot of stuff DT provides for other types of
> firmware nodes?
As i said, path of least resistance. It is here today, heavily used,
well understood by lots of network developers, has a very active
maintainer in the form of Rob Herring, and avoids 'showflakes' as
Florian likes to call it, so we are all sharing the same code,
providing a lot of testing and maintenance.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-31 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 9:03 [net-next PATCH v7 0/6] ACPI support for dpaa2 MAC driver Calvin Johnson
2020-07-15 9:03 ` [net-next PATCH v7 1/6] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY Calvin Johnson
2020-07-16 3:04 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-16 3:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-23 23:26 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-07-24 13:39 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-24 17:26 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-07-24 17:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-24 19:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-24 20:12 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-24 20:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-24 20:20 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-25 7:36 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-07-25 10:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-24 21:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-07-27 17:03 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-07-24 19:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-27 17:21 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-07-28 20:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-28 20:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-07-28 21:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-29 16:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-07-31 15:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-27 17:32 ` Jon Nettleton
[not found] ` <1595922651-sup-5323@galangal.danc.bne.opengear.com>
2020-07-28 20:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-28 20:56 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-28 21:28 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-28 21:40 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-31 15:14 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-09-25 13:22 ` Grant Likely
2020-07-28 22:30 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-07-29 0:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-29 2:53 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-07-29 3:16 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-29 8:43 ` Jon Nettleton
2020-07-29 9:39 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-09-25 13:34 ` Grant Likely
2020-09-26 4:30 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-09-29 5:17 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-09-29 13:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-29 13:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-29 14:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-29 14:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-29 15:06 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-29 15:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-29 14:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-29 14:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-29 15:59 ` Grant Likely
2020-09-29 15:53 ` Grant Likely
2020-09-29 16:04 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-07-15 9:03 ` [net-next PATCH v7 2/6] net: phy: introduce device_mdiobus_register() Calvin Johnson
2020-07-16 3:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-15 9:03 ` [net-next PATCH v7 3/6] net/fsl: use device_mdiobus_register() Calvin Johnson
2020-07-16 3:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-15 9:03 ` [net-next PATCH v7 4/6] net: phy: introduce phy_find_by_mdio_handle() Calvin Johnson
2020-07-16 3:06 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-15 9:03 ` [net-next PATCH v7 5/6] phylink: introduce phylink_fwnode_phy_connect() Calvin Johnson
2020-07-15 9:04 ` [net-next PATCH v7 6/6] net: dpaa2-mac: Add ACPI support for DPAA2 MAC driver Calvin Johnson
2020-09-25 13:39 ` [net-next PATCH v7 0/6] ACPI support for dpaa2 " Grant Likely
2020-09-26 4:34 ` Calvin Johnson
2020-07-25 14:23 Calvin Johnson
2020-07-25 14:23 ` [net-next PATCH v7 1/6] Documentation: ACPI: DSD: Document MDIO PHY Calvin Johnson
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