[PATCH] net: ethernet: remove unneeded dependency of mvneta and update help text

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Jisheng Zhang,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:10:43 +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> > At this point, I don't expect to see this IP in any other SOCs than
> > Marvell Armada EBU, so I'll resend with a "depends on PLAT_ORION", as I
> 
> This IP is used in Marvell Berlin SoCs too ;)

Ah good to know!

Then when this IP will be enabled on Marvell Berlin SoCs, we can extend
the "depends on PLAT_ORION" to "depends on PLAT_ORION || ARCH_BERLIN".

> But Berlin SoC doesn't have a mbus concept. Currently, we just hack the
> mvneta to configure the mbus window.

We can simply introduce a separate compatible string, and make the
driver behave differently depending on which compatible string was used
to probe the device.

Best regards,

Thomas
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