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

[Jason Cooper]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:51:43PM +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 01/24/2013 05:13 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >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.
> >
> Sounds good, while at it, I wonder if we could not simplify Ian's
> patch to be limited to the actual Ethernet MAC driver and use
> Thomas's mvdio device tree binding for the MDIO bits of mv643xx_eth.
> What do you think?

It sounds like you just volunteered ;-)  Do you think you have the time
to knock it out for v3.9?

I'd like to drop most of these board-*.c files for v3.9.  They've been
bugging me since I added the first one (board-dreamplug.c).

thx,

Jason.