Re: [PATCH] [v4] wiznet: convert to GPIO descriptors
From: nicolas saenz julienne
Date: Sun May 17 2026 - 15:12:05 EST
On Mon, 2026-04-27 at 16:48 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 04:28:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The w5100/w5300 drivers only support probing with old platform data in
> > MMIO mode, or probing with DT in SPI mode. There are no users of this
> > platform data in tree, and from the git history it appears that the only
> > users of MMIO mode were on the (since removed) blackfin architecture.
>
> A quick grep does not find any .dts files referencing the compatible.
>
> > It would probably be possible to just remove the MMIO mode driver
> > completely, but it seems fine otherwise, and fixing it to use the modern
> > interface seems easy enough.
>
> Last real development work on this driver was:
>
> Author: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jun 12 14:25:25 2019 +0200
>
> net: ethernet: wiznet: w5X00 add device tree support
>
> The w5X00 chip provides an SPI to Ethernet inteface. This patch allows
> platform devices to be defined through the device tree.
>
> Nicolas, are you still using it?
Hi Andrew, no I'm not.
Thanks,
Nicolas