[PATCH] powerpc: fix MAC address entries for 83xx, 85xx, and 86xx device trees
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 26 01:46:39 EST 2007
>> Shouldn't you use the "??" notation instead, or is that
>> still not implemented?
>
> I just tested the very latest dtc, and it does not support ??.
Yeah too bad.
>> [I would have preferred if you had removed "address" right
>> away (replaced by "mac-address"), but since it is marked
>> for removal anyway, that's fine with me].
>
> My initial patch removed address and mac-address, but Kumar reminded
> me that we don't want to break things so quickly. I didn't want to
> run any regression tests on all these platforms and versions to see
> which obsolete properties could be removed from which DTS.
Yup, they're both marked for removal so let's just remove them
at the same time.
Does the kernel provide a warning to users of too-old firmware^Wuboot
telling them to update btw?
Segher
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