[PATCH 6/8 v2] arm: orion5x: Add DT-based support for Netgear WNR854T

Gregory CLEMENT
2016-09-13T19:16:28Z

Hi Jamie,

On mar., sept. 13 2016, Jamie Lentin <jm@lentin.co.uk> wrote:

> On 2016-09-13 13:36, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:10:41AM +0100, Jamie Lentin wrote:
>>> On 2016-09-12 23:03, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> >>Maybe we can instead leave out the PCI support from the new
>>> >>file for now and not delete the legacy board file?
>>>
>>> This seems a reasonable compromise. The PCI card the router comes
>>> with isn't supported by mwl8k mainline anyway (There's STA-only
>>> firmware that can be extracted from a windows driver and PCI IDs
>>> added, but stats reporting uses a different format), so it's not a
>>> huge loss, although many did replace the card with something
>>> Atheros-based.
>>
>> O.K. So dropping the PCI code gets us going forward.
>
> Is an arch/arm/mach-mvebu/orion5x.c also required? Or is continuing to
> use arch/arm/mach-orion5x/board-dt.c until everything has been
> converted the favoured approach?
>
>> Have we missed the merge window?
>
> I got the impression Gregory Clement had merged them? If not a good
> portion of this patchset is uncontroversial generic orion5x stuff,
> it'd be nice to get those in even if none of the router-specific stuff
> doesn't make it.

I applied on mvebu/for-next in order to find any merge conflict. It
seems ok on this side. However, I didn't make the pull request to
arm-soc with these patches so I fear it is too late.

Arnd would you agree to accept a new pull request?

Gregory

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