From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix MAC address entries for 83xx, 85xx, and 86xx device trees
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:46:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05ae4090f00e42580b7dcbf0619cc0b7@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467FDA2C.8020607@freescale.com>
>> Shouldn't you use the "??" notation instead, or is that
>> still not implemented?
>
> I just tested the very latest dtc, and it does not support ??.
Yeah too bad.
>> [I would have preferred if you had removed "address" right
>> away (replaced by "mac-address"), but since it is marked
>> for removal anyway, that's fine with me].
>
> My initial patch removed address and mac-address, but Kumar reminded
> me that we don't want to break things so quickly. I didn't want to
> run any regression tests on all these platforms and versions to see
> which obsolete properties could be removed from which DTS.
Yup, they're both marked for removal so let's just remove them
at the same time.
Does the kernel provide a warning to users of too-old firmware^Wuboot
telling them to update btw?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-25 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 19:33 [PATCH] powerpc: fix MAC address entries for 83xx, 85xx, and 86xx device trees Timur Tabi
2007-06-23 15:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-25 12:50 ` Josh Boyer
2007-06-25 15:07 ` Timur Tabi
2007-06-25 15:46 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-06-25 16:01 ` Timur Tabi
2007-06-26 7:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-26 15:22 ` Timur Tabi
2007-06-26 15:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-26 15:58 ` Timur Tabi
2007-06-25 16:19 ` Jon Loeliger
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