Re: [PATCH PRELIMINARY 0/5] arm64: dts: qcom: shikra: add Ethernet support

On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 09:14:45AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

On 08/09/2026 09:04, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

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On 08/09/2026 08:23, Mohd Ayaan Anwar wrote:

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Hi,

This preliminary series adds the DTS changes required to enable
Ethernet on the Qualcomm Shikra CQM, CQS, and IQS EVKs.

What is "PRELIMINARY" patch in upstream? Where is this process
documented or expressed?

My apologies. The code is ready, and I was hoping that sharing the DTS
changes would make reviewing the driver and dt-bindings a bit easier.
The original RFC had them together, and I split it out for net-next
and linux-next.

Yeah, but why calling it completely different than every other patchset?
Why coming with different style? Why this cannot be RFC?

Agreed. In hindsight, this should probably have been an RFC v2. I saw
some recent series using a PRELIMINARY tag, but I see that its
ultimately just an RFC.

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The only reason I added a PRELIMINARY tag was because these DTS changes
should go in after the driver changes and dt-bindings.

DTS cannot go after the driver changes. If that is your requirement,
then original work is broken and needs to be fixed.

I should have worded it better. I am only worried about the dt-bindings
going in before this DTS. The driver changes just add support for
whatever we are desribing in this series, they can go in after
dt-bindings and DTS without any issues.

	Ayaan