From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:47:28 +1100 Message-ID: <1202352448.7079.112.camel@pasglop> References: <1202300519-7294-1-git-send-email-sr@denx.de> <20080206160157.GA18228@lixom.net> <20080206102340.1cdf7f8d@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20080206163554.GA18575@lixom.net> Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josh Boyer , Stefan Roese , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Olof Johansson Return-path: Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:45261 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758830AbYBGCsM (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:48:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080206163554.GA18575@lixom.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:35 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > 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. > > Sure, but similar restrictions would apply for customers who have a > flashed device tree that want to boot a newer kernel. Deprecating old > device tree support is something that should be done very carefully. In that case, we -know- there was no such thing as the proper support for 4xx in powerpc isn't really there before 2.6.25 anyway. The only other is Cell/Axon which we verified still works. Ben.