[RFC PATCH] Device tree enable the DM9000 driver

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Aug 10 06:45:40 EST 2011


On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 09:57:28PM +0200, Daniel Morsing wrote:
> This is a first draft for device tree enabling the DM9000 driver.
> The dm9000 is used for a couple of development boards as a low cost ethernet
> controller. Currently there are no users in the kernel, but once support for
> device trees mature on OMAP3, I plan to migrate the Devkit8000 development
> board to DT.
> 
> The patch was originally based on 3.0, so it may contain anachronisms.
> First time playing with device trees, so if i've misunderstood
> anything, Sorry :).
> 
> Daniel Morsing (1):
>   net: dm9000: add support for device tree probing

Nitpick: when there is only one patch in a series, don't use a cover
letter.  Put the cover letter text into the patch itself.

> 
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dm9000.txt |   46 ++++++++++++

Regardless of whether you misunderstood something or not, you added
documentation which is already miles ahead.  :-)

g.



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