From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E93DDF27 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 03:24:05 +1100 (EST) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so2787578wxd.15 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:24:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:23:40 -0600 From: Josh Boyer To: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table Message-ID: <20080206102340.1cdf7f8d@zod.rchland.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20080206160157.GA18228@lixom.net> References: <1202300519-7294-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> <20080206160157.GA18228@lixom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Stefan Roese , jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:01:57 -0600 Olof Johansson 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