Hello Simon,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 08:29:37AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 06:22:01PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

quoted

I converted all drivers below drivers/net/ethernet in a single patch. If
you want it split, just tell me (per vendor? per driver?). Also note I
didn't add all the maintainers of the individual drivers to Cc: to not
trigger sending restrictions and spam filters.

I think that given that the changes to each file are very simple,
and the number of files changed, a single, or small number of patches
make sense. Because the overhead of managing per-driver patches,
which I would ordinarily prefer, seems too large.

full ack.

However, touching so many files does lead to a substantial risk of
conflicts. And indeed, the patch does not currently apply cleanly
to net-next (although it can trivially be made to do so). Perhaps
the maintainers can handle that, but I would suggest reposting in
a form that does apply cleanly so that automations can run.

I based it on plain next in the expectation that this matches the
network tree well enough. I agree that the conflicts are not hard to
resolve, but it's totally ok for me if only the parts of the patch are
taken that apply without problems. I expect that I'll have to go through
more than one subsystem a second time anyhow because new drivers pop up
using the old idioms.

Also note that git can handle the changes just fine if you use
3-way merging:

	uwe@taurus:~/gsrc/linux$ git checkout net-next/main 
	HEAD is now at 151ac45348af net: sparx5: Fix invalid timestamps

	uwe@taurus:~/gsrc/linux$ b4 am -3 https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240923162202.34386-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/ (local)
	Grabbing thread from lore.kernel.org/all/20240923162202.34386-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/t.mbox.gz
	Analyzing 3 messages in the thread
	Analyzing 0 code-review messages
	Checking attestation on all messages, may take a moment...
	---
	  ✓ [PATCH] net: ethernet: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()
	    + Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] (✓ DKIM/gmail.com)
	  ---
	  ✓ Signed: openpgp/u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
	  ✓ Signed: DKIM/baylibre-com.20230601.gappssmtp.com (From: u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com)
	---
	Total patches: 1
	Preared a fake commit range for 3-way merge (77e0c079ace8..198dd8fb7661)
	---
	 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240923162202.34386-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com (local)
	 Base: using specified base-commit ef545bc03a65438cabe87beb1b9a15b0ffcb6ace
	       git checkout -b 20240923_u_kleine_koenig_baylibre_com ef545bc03a65438cabe87beb1b9a15b0ffcb6ace
	       git am -3 ./20240923_u_kleine_koenig_net_ethernet_switch_back_to_struct_platform_driver_remove.mbx

	uwe@taurus:~/gsrc/linux$ git am -3 ./20240923_u_kleine_koenig_net_ethernet_switch_back_to_struct_platform_driver_remove.mbx
	Applying: net: ethernet: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()
	Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
	M	drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/ep93xx_eth.c
	M	drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
	M	drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
	Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge...
	Auto-merging drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
	Auto-merging drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c
	Auto-merging drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus/ep93xx_eth.c

Which brings me to to a separate, process issue: net-next is currently
closed for the v6.12 merge window. It should reopen once v6.12-rc1 has
been released. And patches for net-next should be posted after it
has reopened, with the caveat that RFC patches may be posted any time.

This was a concious choice. Because of the big amount of drivers touched
I thought to post early to have a chance to get the patch applied before
the gates are opened for other patches was a reasonable (but I admit
selfish) idea.

Anyhow, I can repost once the merge window closes.

Best regards
Uwe