[GIT PULL] Marvell Ethernet driver clk support + section mismatch fix

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 21 07:35:45 EST 2012


David,

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:13:14 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

>  * One adding clk support. It's not a fix, but I think it's better if
>    we can get the Device Tree binding correct directly in 3.8. This
>    commit basically replaces the clock-frequency DT property by a
>    proper 'clocks' DT property that references a DT clock. If we don't
>    get this in 3.8, we'll have to support the legacy clock-frequency
>    DT property for ever as it will be part of the kernel-to-DT ABI. So
>    it would be nicer to get this patch in for 3.8.
> 
>    The DT patches related to this one are coming into a separate pull
>    request.
> 
>  * The second one fixes a section mismatch warning, so it is certainly
>    important.

Do you agree with those two changes? If so, shall we carry them with
the rest of the mvneta driver through arm-soc with your Acked-by?

Thanks!

Thomas
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