From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the net-next tree Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:36:39 +0400 Message-ID: <51C07077.3040600@cogentembedded.com> References: <20130617163920.04523ba6de50bcc81563f33e@canb.auug.org.au> <51BF1461.8060401@cogentembedded.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bastian Hecht Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Olof Johansson , Arnd Bergmann , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Simon Horman List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org Hello. On 18-06-2013 12:33, Bastian Hecht wrote: > Sergei is completely right I think. He was sceptic about the commit in > a mail some days ago already. Unfortunately I recently haven't had > access to my development environment to check what's up with this > patch. I'm sorry that it ended up to you both to deal with it. I have > written some simple bindings for the sh-eth and wanted to use it for > our DT reference version for the Armadillo board but discarded it as I > saw Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, the author of the sh-eth driver, cooked up some > more mature version. I don't see them in the next branch of Simon, so > until they appear there we can delete commit 9e0b428f079d ("ARM: It won't appear there. I'll just NAK it, I think I've alredy told Iwamatsu-san that the full blown device tree binding for this driver is no-go. The best we can do is use OF_DEV_AUXDATA() to rename the DT sourced platform device to a traditional one and assign to it the platform data. > shmobile: r8a7740: Add interim sh-eth device name to clocks list") Unfortunately, it's now too late to just delete it at this point. I missed the patch unfortunately when it was just submitted. > that is only needed for sh-eth DT usage. > Thanks, > Bastian WBR, Sergei