linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: add MTD support to eth_platform_get_mac

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:35:04 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-OMAP <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: add MTD support to eth_platform_get_mac_address()

2018-07-19 17:27 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>:
>> Unfortunately: this would effectively block me from improving the
>> support for older davinci boards.
>
> Is there something blocking you from converting the board to device
> tree? This is something i did with a lot of the Marvell boards a few
> years ago. For a while, we had both DT and board setup files. After a
> couple of cycles, we killed off the setup files.
>
>        Andrew

Actually some board are supported both in DT and board files
(da850-evm) right now, but Sekhar wants to keep the support via board
files in the kernel so that's a no go.

Bart