Re: [RFC PATCH v4 net-next 00/23] add support for VSC75XX control over SPI

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 07:04:04AM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:23:05PM -0800, Colin Foster wrote:

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My apologies for this next RFC taking so long. Life got in the way.

The patch set in general is to add support for the VSC7511, VSC7512,
VSC7513 and VSC7514 devices controlled over SPI. The driver is
relatively functional for the internal phy ports (0-3) on the VSC7512.
As I'll discuss, it is not yet functional for other ports yet.

Since series touches fwnode, please Cc next time to Daniel Scally.

Thank you. I will do this next time.

For my future reference, is there a way that I could have known this? Or
is this just knowledge that comes with experience? The email list I got
was from running the patch set through get_maintainers.

It's just an ad-hoc since there are a few independent teams are doing
something that related to fwnode APIs: Daniel due to camera work for ACPI
enabled platforms, Qian due to a design bug with fwnode, Anand due to IIO
drivers, you are due to PHY (and possibly others I have no knowledge about).

I haven't asked for the others I listed above since their work probably
doesn't cross what you are doing, but camera might be closer.

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It also appears [1] that somewhere in PHY code a bug is hidden
(at least I think so).

Thank you for this information. I'll keep an eye out!

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[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211113204141.520924-1-djrscally@gmail.com/T/#u (local)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko