[RFC PATCH 6/6] ARM: kirkwood: consolidate mv643xx_eth init for DT

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Thu Jan 24 11:13:49 EST 2013


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:54:27PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 24 January 2013, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > I agree, however, there is a long history with that patch.  That driver
> > has been in use by powerpc for many years.  We need to be mindful not to
> > break existing installations.  I don't think it'll be ready in time for
> > v3.9.  So, I'd like to do the cleanup now.
> > 
> > > [1]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/175652/
> 
> I actually think we can take that patch.

Woot!

> The result of the discussion back then was after all that we won't try
> to keep the bindings compatible, and the powerpc version just uses the
> platform_device part of the driver by fabricating platform_data from
> the arch code.
> 
> It should not have any impact on this, as long as you ensure that the
> platform_data is still supported.

Ian's patch appears to do so.  I'll respin this series using it vice my
lookup table.

thx,

Jason.



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