[PATCH v2] arm: imx6: zii: Add i210 PCIe interface to the device tree

Lucas Stach l.stach at pengutronix.de
Mon Apr 24 10:45:15 EDT 2017


Hi Andrew,

Am Montag, den 24.04.2017, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:47:22AM +0200, Lucas Stach wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 15.04.2017, 22:45 -0700 schrieb Chris Healy:
> > > The board has an Intel i210 Ethernet controller on its PCIe bus. Add a
> > > device tree node for this.
> > 
> > I wold prefer a better description on why we need this node, as PCIe is
> > an enumerable bus. Do you need this node to attach a MAC address or
> > something?
> 
> Hi Lucas
> 
> We need to attach an Ethernet switch, using the DSA binding. Please
> take a look at Documentation/binding/net/dsa.txt. We need a phandle to
> the i210 Ethernet MAC.

Sure, this rationale seems fine. Please make sure to include it in the
patch description on the next submission.

Regards,
Lucas




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