[PATCH net-next 1/7] net: freescale: ucc_geth: Drop support for the "interface" DT property

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Nov 8 04:34:01 AEDT 2024


On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 06:02:48PM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> In april 2007, ucc_geth was converted to phylib with :
> 
> commit 728de4c927a3 ("ucc_geth: migrate ucc_geth to phylib").
> 
> In that commit, the device-tree property "interface", that could be used to
> retrieve the PHY interface mode was deprecated.
> 
> DTS files that still used that property were converted along the way, in
> the following commit, also dating from april 2007 :
> 
> commit 0fd8c47cccb1 ("[POWERPC] Replace undocumented interface properties in dts files")
> 
> 17 years later, there's no users of that property left and I hope it's
> safe to say we can remove support from that in the ucc_geth driver,
> making the probe() function a bit simpler.

17 years seems reasonable.

> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew


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