[PATCH 4/8] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_fwnode()

Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli at broadcom.com
Mon Jul 20 09:57:27 PDT 2026


On 7/20/26 07:38, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> Prefer the higher-level platform_device_set_fwnode() over the
>> OF-specific platform_device_set_of_node() for dynamically allocated
>> platform devices.
> 
> Why?
> 
> This driver is OF only. It does not support ACPI, and probably never
> will. In general, networking and ACPI don't go together, ACPI is not
> sufficiently advanced.
> 
> What is you use case here?

The driver has been, or was used on ACPI-based platforms:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99c6b06a37d4cab118c45448fef9d28df62d35d8
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Florian
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