[PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Remove "rgmii-interface" from rgmii matching table
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 03:23:40 EST 2008
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:01:57 -0600
Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> 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?
Like what? Kexec doesn't work on 4xx yet.
> Just because the device tree source is distributed in the kernel tree
> doesn't mean it can give up backwards compatibility.
We checked Axon, which is the only non-DTS machine that uses EMAC and
it will work fine with this change.
josh
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