From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.arcor.de", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4054DDE30 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:46:50 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <467FDA2C.8020607@freescale.com> References: <11825407952085-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com> <70d005ce549921cc56481fe0b26faaa4@kernel.crashing.org> <467FDA2C.8020607@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <05ae4090f00e42580b7dcbf0619cc0b7@kernel.crashing.org> From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix MAC address entries for 83xx, 85xx, and 86xx device trees Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:46:39 +0200 To: Timur Tabi Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , >> 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