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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/11] ibm_newemac: Skip EMACs that are marked unused by
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:14:30AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> From: Hugh Blemings <hugh@blemings.org>
> 
> Depending on how the 44x processors are wired, some EMAC cells
> might not be useable (and not connected to a PHY). However, some
> device-trees may choose to still expose them (since their registers
> are present in the MMIO space) but with an "unused" property in
> them.

It occurred to me the other day.  Instead of using a new "unused"
property for this, should we be using the OF standard "status"
property.

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