[PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: Ensure that kirkwood_ge0[01]_init() finds its clock

[Jason Cooper]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 03:19:13PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 12:08 PM, Simon Baatz wrote:
> >Hi Sebastian,
> >
> >On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> >>Jason posted a patch set that makes mv643xx DT compatible. IMHO this
> >>patch is obsolete when we have DT support for mv643xx.
> >>kirkwood_ge00/01_init will not be called with DT support at all.
> >
> >I know. This is to fix a regression in 3.8 (which currently does not
> >boot with my "modularized" config).
> 
> Simon,
> 
> I _cannot_ confirm that gbe is loosing its MAC address on Dove. I will
> post a follow-up patch to Jason's cleanup patches that will also
> grab a clock for smi. With that patch insmod'ing/rmmod'ing mv643xx_eth
> does work just fine here on Dove.

I believe Simon's issue is that the mv643xx_eth driver is not loaded at
boot, it's clocks get gated, then when he loads the driver, there is no
mac address.  Is that correct Simon?  I don't think unloading the driver
after boot will trigger this regression.

thx,

Jason.