From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jason@lakedaemon.net (Jason Cooper) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:13:49 -0500 Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/6] ARM: kirkwood: consolidate mv643xx_eth init for DT In-Reply-To: <201301241554.28003.arnd@arndb.de> References: <51013933.9020601@openwrt.org> <20130124143736.GZ1758@titan.lakedaemon.net> <201301241554.28003.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20130124161349.GC1758@titan.lakedaemon.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:54:27PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2013, Jason Cooper wrote: > > I agree, however, there is a long history with that patch. That driver > > has been in use by powerpc for many years. We need to be mindful not to > > break existing installations. I don't think it'll be ready in time for > > v3.9. So, I'd like to do the cleanup now. > > > > > [1]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/175652/ > > I actually think we can take that patch. Woot! > The result of the discussion back then was after all that we won't try > to keep the bindings compatible, and the powerpc version just uses the > platform_device part of the driver by fabricating platform_data from > the arch code. > > It should not have any impact on this, as long as you ensure that the > platform_data is still supported. Ian's patch appears to do so. I'll respin this series using it vice my lookup table. thx, Jason.