[PATCH 2/2] net-next: ethernet: mediatek: change the compatible string

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jan 25 11:36:20 PST 2017


From: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:20:55 +0100

> 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>

Applied.



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