netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] ARM: kirkwood: remove redundant DT board files

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Date:	Thu, 30 May 2013 11:08:14 +0200
From:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
To:	Arnaud Ebalard <arno@...isbad.org>
CC:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/13] ARM: kirkwood: remove redundant DT board files

On 05/30/13 11:06, Arnaud Ebalard wrote:
> Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com> writes:
>> With DT support for mv643xx_eth board specific init for some boards now
>> is unneccessary. Remove those board files, Kconfig entries, and
>> corresponding entries in kirkwood_defconfig.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
...
> Just a stupid note: With Thomas ongoing work to get mvebu-pcie driver in
> place and enabled for kirkwood, some boards setup files will also lose
> their pcie init routines, which may allow you to kill those additonal
> files soon.
>
> For instance 6bd98481ab34 (arm: kirkwood: NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo v2 init
> PCIe via DT) currently sitting in jcooper/mvebu/pcie_kirkwood removes
> the PCIE init routine in board-readynas.c, and yours remove ge00
> init. With both applied, the whole file can go away.
>
> AFAICT, this may be the case soon for:
>
>   arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-iconnect.c   (36e5722089)
>   arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-mplcec4.c    (9470fbfb8d)
>   arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-nsa310.c     (40fa8e5da2)
>   arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-readynas.c   (6bd98481ab)
>   arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-ts219.c      (259e234608)
>
> Anyway, thanks for this work Sebastian.

Arnaud,

I already realized this when merging Jason's recent PRs and put
mv643xx_eth patches on top. I am aware of it but as ARM part of
mv643xx_eth will be delayed until net part surfaces, we have
plenty of time to react on current updates to mach-kirkwood
boards.

Sebastian

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