[PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Feb 7 03:01:57 EST 2008


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:21:59PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> With the removal the the "rgmii-interface" device_type property from the
> dts files, the newemac driver needs an update to only rely on compatible
> property.

What about systems using an older dts, such as one kexec:ing from an
older kernel?

Just because the device tree source is distributed in the kernel tree
doesn't mean it can give up backwards compatibility.


-Olof




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