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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:12:55 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <B04825@...escale.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Wei Yang <Wei.Yang@...driver.com>,
	Manoil Claudiu-B08782 <B08782@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar_ptp: use iomem, not ioports resource tree in
 probe

Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Even if it makes sense to convert the driver to of_xxx calls,
> I think the obvious bug should be fixed as a separate commit,
> so that the -stable folks have something to cherry pick.

Oh, I agree with that.  I was just wondering why an OF-enabled driver
would not use OF calls.  I've never seen that before.  My instinct is that
the original developer had no idea what he was doing, but perhaps there is
a very good reason for the way the driver is written.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

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