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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 19:38:17 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 3/8] net: phy: Add helper to set EEE Clock
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> That depends who is going to do that work. If it's individual driver
> maintainers, then I think we want this to go in along with this series
> so that we don't end up with individual driver maintainers having to
> carry this patch, and submissions ending up with multiple copies of
> this patch or depending on other maintainers submissions.
> 
> On the other hand, if someone is going to go through all the network
> drivers and update them as one series, then it probably makes more
> sense to move this to that series.

When i did this work, i did convert all drivers to the new API, and
then dropped the old API. There are too many patches for a single
series, so it makes sense to put the API in place along with one
driver conversion to show how it works, then a second series
converting all the remaining drivers, and then a cleanup series.

	Andrew