[PATCH 0/3] realtek: add support for Panasonic Switch-M8eG PN28080K

[INAGAKI Hiroshi]

Hi Hauke,

Thank you for the guidance.

On 2021/11/30 6:37, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 11/12/21 10:00 PM, Sander Vanheule wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 15:53 +0900, INAGAKI Hiroshi wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> INAGAKI Hiroshi (3):
>>>    realtek: enable pca953x driver for target
>>>    realtek: enable gpio-restart driver in target
>>>    realtek: add support for Panasonic Switch-M8eG PN28080K
>>>
>>>   target/linux/realtek/config-5.10              |   4 +
>>>   target/linux/realtek/config-5.4               |   4 +
>>>   .../rtl8380_panasonic_m8eg-pn28080k.dts       | 103 ++++++++
>>>   .../rtl83xx_panasonic_mxxeg-pn28xx0k.dtsi     | 216 
>>> +++++++++++++++++
>>>   .../rtl8380_panasonic_m8eg-pn28080k.dts       | 107 +++++++++
>>>   .../rtl83xx_panasonic_mxxeg-pn28xx0k.dtsi     | 220 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++
>>>   target/linux/realtek/image/Makefile           |  10 +
>>>   7 files changed, 664 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 
>>> target/linux/realtek/dts-5.10/rtl8380_panasonic_m8eg-pn28080k.dts
>>>   create mode 100644 
>>> target/linux/realtek/dts-5.10/rtl83xx_panasonic_mxxeg-pn28xx0k.dtsi
>>>   create mode 100644 
>>> target/linux/realtek/dts-5.4/rtl8380_panasonic_m8eg-pn28080k.dts
>>>   create mode 100644 
>>> target/linux/realtek/dts-5.4/rtl83xx_panasonic_mxxeg-pn28xx0k.dtsi
>>
>> I guess this is more a question for the maintainers: Since the 
>> realtek target now uses the
>> 5.10 kernel in master, does it still make sense to add support for 
>> 5.4? Hiroshi has
>> backported the upstream drivers for 5.10 (thanks again!), so both 
>> kernel version now have
>> different quirks. Personnaly, I would prefer not to have to put any 
>> energy in 5.4 anymore.
>
> The realtek target already has KERNEL_PATCHVER set to 5.10 now. You 
> do not have to add support for kernel 5.4 in your patches any more, 
> if you want to it is fine with me, but we will probability delete 
> the support for kernel 5.4 in 1 or 2 months anyway.
>
> If you need special workarounds for kernel 5.4 I would suggest to go 
> with kernel 5.10 only.
> @Hiroshi I added some of the GPIO patches from Sander, could you 
> please rebase your patch on top of that.

I see, OK. I'm preparing the v2 patch rebased from master, without 5.4 
changes :)

>
> Hauke

Regards,
Hiroshi