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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
	jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:23:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080206102340.1cdf7f8d@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080206160157.GA18228@lixom.net>

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:01:57 -0600
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:21:59PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > With the removal the the "rgmii-interface" device_type property from the
> > dts files, the newemac driver needs an update to only rely on compatible
> > property.
> 
> What about systems using an older dts, such as one kexec:ing from an
> older kernel?

Like what?  Kexec doesn't work on 4xx yet.

> Just because the device tree source is distributed in the kernel tree
> doesn't mean it can give up backwards compatibility.

We checked Axon, which is the only non-DTS machine that uses EMAC and
it will work fine with this change.

josh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 12:21 [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table Stefan Roese
2008-02-06 12:49 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-11 16:08   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-06 16:01 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-06 16:23   ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-02-06 16:35     ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-07  2:47       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-16  9:37 Stefan Roese
2008-01-16  9:39 ` David Gibson
2008-01-16  9:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-16 15:01   ` Josh Boyer
2008-01-30  6:16     ` Stefan Roese
2008-01-30 23:14       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-05 21:12         ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-05 21:18           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-06 12:12           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-06 12:16             ` Stefan Roese
2008-01-17 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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