[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: devicetree: change the mediatek ethernet compatible string

Matthias Brugger matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 02:43:16 PST 2017



On 01/25/2017 09:20 AM, John Crispin wrote:
> When the binding was defined, I was not aware that mt2701 was an earlier
> version of the SoC. For sake of consistency, the ethernet driver should
> use mt2701 inside the compat string as this is the earliest SoC with the
> ethernet core.
>
> The ethernet driver is currently of no real use until we finish and
> upstream the DSA driver. There are no users of this binding yet. It should
> be safe to fix this now before it is too late and we need to provide
> backward compatibility for the mt7623-eth compat string.
>
> Reported-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
> ---

sounds reasonable to me:
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg at gmail.com>

>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt
> index c010faf..c7194e8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mediatek-net.txt
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ have dual GMAC each represented by a child node..
>  * Ethernet controller node
>
>  Required properties:
> -- compatible: Should be "mediatek,mt7623-eth"
> +- compatible: Should be "mediatek,mt2701-eth"
>  - reg: Address and length of the register set for the device
>  - interrupts: Should contain the three frame engines interrupts in numeric
>  	order. These are fe_int0, fe_int1 and fe_int2.
>



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