From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:10:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20180716121005.GA23309@kroah.com> References: <20180629094039.7543-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> <20180629094039.7543-9-brgl@bgdev.pl> <03b77e24-9ab9-fa01-2387-9de0408a9942@gmail.com> <20180704070919.GA14051@lenoch> <3b53a8a7-3f3a-4341-35b0-e7b52854fa9b@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla , Bartosz Golaszewski , Ladislav Michl , Florian Fainelli , Kevin Hilman , Russell King , Grygorii Strashko , "David S . Miller" , Lukas Wunner , Rob Herring , Dan Carpenter , Ivan Khoronzhuk , David Lechner , Andrew Lunn , Jonathan Corbet , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:53180 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727857AbeGPMhQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:37:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3b53a8a7-3f3a-4341-35b0-e7b52854fa9b@ti.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 05:27:00PM +0530, Sekhar Nori wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2018 02:26 PM, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > > > > > > On 16/07/18 09:50, Sekhar Nori wrote: > >> On Friday 13 July 2018 11:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > >> > >>> We're getting close to rc5 so I'd like to make a case for this series > >>> again. > >>> > >>> I understand that there's more to do than just the changes introduced > >>> here, but we shouldn't try to fix several problems in many different > >>> places at once. There's just too many moving pieces. I'd rather start > >>> merging small improvements right away. > >>> > >>> The idea behind this series is to remove (almost) all users of > >>> at24_platform_data. The davinci_emac patches are there only because we > >>> need to remove some MAC adress reading stuff from the board files. > >>> Having this code there and calling it back from EEPROM/MTD drivers is > >>> already wrong and we should work towards using nvmem for that anyway. > >>> > >>> Currently for MTD the nvmem support series seems to be dead and it's > >>> going to take some time before anything gets upstream. > >>> > >>> So I'd like to again ask you to consider picking up the patches from > >>> this series to your respective trees or at the very least: I'd like to > >>> ask Srinivas to pick up the nvmem patches and Sekhar to take the > >>> first, non-controversial batch of davinci platform changes so that > >>> we'll have less code to carry for the next release. > >> > >> I think those are patches 3-7. I can take those if I get an immutable > >> commit over v4.18-rc1 from Srinivas with patches 1 & 2 applied. > > > nvmem patches go via Greg KH char-misc tree, if it makes things easy I > > can provide Ack on nvmem patches, so that you can take these patches via > > your tree? > > > > Let me know. > > I can do that. > > Greg, are you fine with this? It will be great to have your ack for > patches 1/8 and 2/18. I'm not the nvmem maintainer :)