[GIT PULL 3/3] ARM: shmobile: lager: enable Ether

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Aug 21 20:16:49 EDT 2013


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:13:30PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 08/21/2013 08:01 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> 
> >>Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com>
> >>Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
> 
> >This one is triggering a new build failure in -next:
> 
> >arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c:99:2: error: unknown field 'register_type' specified in initializer
> >arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-lager.c:99:19: error: 'SH_ETH_REG_FAST_RCAR' undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> >>+/* Ether */
> >>+static struct sh_eth_plat_data ether_pdata __initdata = {
> >>+	.phy			= 0x1,
> >>+	.edmac_endian		= EDMAC_LITTLE_ENDIAN,
> >>+	.register_type		= SH_ETH_REG_FAST_RCAR,
> 
> >and it looks to be because this board is trying to use the register_type
> >field which was removed by:
> 
> >commit 8d3214c4e8c8be6efd8ec7a172239ebbd4deb04b
> >Author: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
> >Date:   Sun Aug 18 03:13:26 2013 +0400
> >
> >     sh_eth: remove 'register_type' field from 'struct sh_eth_plat_data'
> >
> >     Now that the 'register_type' field of the 'sh_eth' driver's platform data is not
> >     used by the driver anymore, it's time to remove it and  its initializers from
> >     the SH platform code. Also  move *enum* declaring values for this  field from
> >     <linux/sh_eth.h>  to  the  local driver's  header file as they're only needed
> >     by the driver itself  now...
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> 
>    Looks like in this case I had no choice since R8A7790 support for
> the 'sh_eth' driver will be added in 3.12 only, so if I merged these
> patches thru the shmobile tree, we'd have gotten an error in the
> driver...
>    I guess it's too early to fix this in any particular tree except
> for linux-next itself... let me know what I can do.

This patch ("ARM: shmobile: lager: enable Ether") is also targeted at v3.12.
So it seems to me that a fix for this could go through the shmobile tree
if it is acceptable to merge net-next into the base of a pull-request.

Kevin, Olof, could you give some guidance here.



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