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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 1/2] dtb: xgene: fix: Disable 10GbE and SGMII based 1GbE by default
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:40:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2461768.hHqNmTQE9x@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKh23FkVrPdCuR6dn1S4RvW14_f4Xq8MWaChUh9DyVp44kVtSg@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 03 November 2014 11:45:44 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 October 2014 17:56:19 Iyappan Subramanian wrote:
> >> @@ -621,7 +621,7 @@
> >>                         };
> >>                 };
> >>
> >> -               sgenet0: ethernet at 1f210000 {
> >> +               sgenet0: sgenet at 1f210000 {
> >>                         compatible = "apm,xgene-enet";
> >>                         status = "disabled";
> >>                         reg = <0x0 0x1f210000 0x0 0x10000>,
> >>
> >
> > This looks like you accidentally reverted a bug fix made earlier.
> > Network devices should always have the name 'ethernet at ...'.
> 
> Thanks for the review.  Since our firmware was patching the dtb, based
> on the node-name, we thought by changing node-name, we can avoid the
> patching and maintain backward compatibility.
> 
> Now we know that network devices should have 'ethernet at ...', we will
> handle the backward compatibility in a different way and will post the
> patch v2 shortly.

It's not important enough to break backwards compatibility over this.
If you can't find a better way to handle compatibility with the old
firmware, just add a comment explaining the node name.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-30  0:56 [PATCH v1 0/2] drivers: net: xgene: Fix crash for backward compatibility Iyappan Subramanian
2014-10-30  0:56 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] dtb: xgene: fix: Disable 10GbE and SGMII based 1GbE by default Iyappan Subramanian
2014-10-30 10:13   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-11-03 19:45     ` Iyappan Subramanian
2014-11-04  9:40       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-10-30  0:56 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] drivers: net: xgene: fix: Use separate resources Iyappan Subramanian

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