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Subject: Re: Re: realtek PHY commit bbc4d71d63549 causes regression
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 at 01:40, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > One question that still has not been answered is how many actual
> > platforms were fixed by backporting Realtek's follow up fix to
> > -stable. My suspicion is none. That by itself should be enough
> > justification to revert the backport of that change.
>
> I think i've already said that would be a good idea. It makes the
> problem less critical. But the problem is still there, we are just
> kicking the can down the road. I've not seen much activity actually
> fixing the broken DT. So i suspect when we catch up with the can, we
> will mostly still be in the same place. Actually, maybe worse, because
> broken DTs have been copy/pasted for new boards?
>

I don't see how that matters. If the new board ships with a stable
kernel, things should simply work as they did before. If the new board
ships with a new kernel, things won't work in the first place, so it
is unlikely to cause a regression in the field.