From: Timur Tabi <timur@tabi.org>
To: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@advaoptical.com>,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, leoli@freescale.com,
galak@kernel.crashing.org, B38951@freescale.com,
Dongsheng.Wang@freescale.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de,
stef.van.os@prodrive.nl, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MDIO: FSL_PQ_MDIO: Fix bug on incorrect offset of tbipa register
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:04:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B871CB.1090808@tabi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371041258-15298-1-git-send-email-ogabbay@advaoptical.com>
Oded Gabbay wrote:
> Note: This patch may break MDIO functionallity of some old Freescale's SoC
> until Freescale will fix their device tree files. Basically, every device tree
> which contains an mdio device that is compatible to "fsl,gianfar-tbi" should be
> examined.
I haven't had a chance to review the patch in detail, but I can tell you
that breaking compatibility with older device trees is unacceptable. You
need to add some code, even if it's an ugly hack, to support those trees.
--
Timur Tabi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-12 12:47 [PATCH] MDIO: FSL_PQ_MDIO: Fix bug on incorrect offset of tbipa register Oded Gabbay
2013-06-12 13:04 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2013-06-12 13:09 ` Oded Gabbay
2013-06-12 15:08 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-06-12 18:31 ` Scott Wood
2013-06-13 6:44 ` Oded Gabbay
2013-06-15 22:57 ` Timur Tabi
2015-10-09 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: check TBI address for consistency with mapped range Gerlando Falauto
2015-10-09 15:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: fix computed address for the TBI register Gerlando Falauto
2015-10-09 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: check TBI address for consistency with mapped range kbuild test robot
2015-10-11 12:41 ` Timur Tabi
2015-10-12 7:18 ` [PATCH v2 " Gerlando Falauto
2015-10-12 7:18 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: fix computed address for the TBI register Gerlando Falauto
2015-10-13 11:30 ` David Miller
2015-10-13 11:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] net/fsl_pq_mdio: check TBI address for consistency with mapped range David Miller
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