Re: [PATCH net-next v8 2/6] net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: use generic device properties

Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:18:00 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM Russell King (Oracle)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 06:03:37PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
> >
> > In order to drop the dependency on CONFIG_OF, convert all device property
> > getters from OF-specific to generic device properties and stop pulling
> > in any linux/of.h symbols.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
>
> Please postpone this for the time being - I'm trying to get stmmac's
> pain-in-the-arse PCS support sorted, and I've patch series out there
> and pending that make a large number of changes to this driver. This
> is likely to conflict with my work.
>
> I'm limited by the rate at which patches can be applied to net-next
> and the rate at which Mohd can provide me feedback. On that, I notice
> you haven't Cc'd Mohd who is now in MAINTAINERS for qcom-ethqos.
>

Do these two changesets interact with each other a lot? Do you have a
WIP branch I could take a look at? This has been post-poned several
times already, there always seem to be some new changes coming in. :/

Bart