[PATCH] net: sh_eth: Add support of device tree probe

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Kuninori Morimoto
<kuninori.morimoto.gx at renesas.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon, Iwamatsu-san
>
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible:                   "renesas,sh-eth";
>> +- interrupt-parent:             The phandle for the interrupt controller that
>> +                                services interrupts for this device.
>> +- reg:                          Offset and length of the register set for the
>> +                                device.
>> +- interrupts:                   Interrupt mapping for the sh_eth interrupt
>> +                                sources (vector id).
>> +- phy-mode:              String, operation mode of the PHY interface.
>> +- sh-eth,edmac-endian:          String, endian of sh_eth dmac.
>
> I believe endian is only little/big.
> It can be "bool" settings, not "string" ?
>

If we use bool , we may use this as "sh-eth,edmac-endian-big" or
sh-eth,edmac-endian-little.
Or we define big-endian, and when using big-endian, we specify this.
Either way is okay.

>> +- sh-eth,endian:                String, endian of sh_eth dmac.
>
> Is this really used it in this driver ?
>

Yes. In many cases, this uses little-endian, but user may specify
big-endian, I think.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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Nobuhiro Iwamatsu