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From: Timur Tabi <B04825@freescale.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Wei Yang <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>,
	Manoil Claudiu-B08782 <B08782@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar_ptp: use iomem, not ioports resource tree in probe
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:12:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50883DB7.4030502@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50883D03.1000600@windriver.com>

Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Even if it makes sense to convert the driver to of_xxx calls,
> I think the obvious bug should be fixed as a separate commit,
> so that the -stable folks have something to cherry pick.

Oh, I agree with that.  I was just wondering why an OF-enabled driver
would not use OF calls.  I've never seen that before.  My instinct is that
the original developer had no idea what he was doing, but perhaps there is
a very good reason for the way the driver is written.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-24 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-24 15:21 [PATCH] gianfar_ptp: use iomem, not ioports resource tree in probe Paul Gortmaker
2012-10-24 17:59 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-10-24 19:09   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-10-24 19:12     ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2012-10-24 19:42       ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-24 20:11         ` Timur Tabi
2012-10-24 20:50           ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-25 11:41       ` wyang1
2012-10-25 20:08       ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-25 20:17         ` Timur Tabi
2012-10-26 10:32           ` Richard Cochran
2012-10-25  3:19 ` David Miller

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