[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/83xx: Move gianfar mdio nodes under the ethernet nodes

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:43:07AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:28:00PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > It would be great to have #include <gianfar_enet.dts> facility in .dts
> > files. ;-) I heard some rumors about this, what was the consequence?..
> 
> You can already do a raw include, but in most cases it needs parameterized
> templates/macros to make it useful.  There were some patches floating around
> for that, but there was some disagreement about syntax and the discussion
> seems to have died out.

Yeah - basically Jon got busy with other things, so we no longer had
critical mass to keep things moving.  I have an idea for a partway
step that will be enough for at least some applications without making
life awkward for a more complete approach later.  Basically the idea
is just to have "weak" property assignments - you can have an include
file which has a bunch of these, but they can be silently overriden by
normal property assignments afterwards.

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