linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] mv643xx_eth: use mvmdio MDIO bus driver

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Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:25:44 -0400
From:	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>
To:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
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	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
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	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
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	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] mv643xx_eth: use mvmdio MDIO bus driver

Florian,

Any word on version 2 of this series?  I'd like to base the conversion
of kirkwood to DT based ethernet init on it.

thx,

Jason.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:24:03PM +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch converts the mv643xx_eth driver to use the mvmdio MDIO bus driver
> instead of rolling its own implementation. As a result, all users of this
> mv643xx_eth driver are converted to register an "orion-mdio" platform_device.
> The mvmdio driver is also updated to support an interrupt line which reports
> SMI error/completion, and to allow traditionnal platform device registration
> instead of just device tree.
> 
> David, I think it makes sense for you to merge all of this, since we do
> not want the architecture files to be desynchronized from the mv643xx_eth to
> avoid runtime breakage. The potential for merge conflicts should be very small.
> 
> You can probably safely merge patches 1 to 4 if Thomas agrees, and we will
> see what kind of feeback I get on patch 5.
> 
> Florian Fainelli (5):
>   net: mvmdio: unmap base register address at driver removal
>   net: mvmdio: rename base register cookie from smireg to regs
>   net: mvmdio: enhance driver to support SMI error/done interrupts
>   net: mvmdio: allow Device Tree and platform device to coexist
>   mv643xx_eth: convert to use the Marvell Orion MDIO driver
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-orion-mdio.txt |    3 +
>  arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c                       |   84 +++++++--
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/pegasos_eth.c          |   20 +++
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/mv64x60_dev.c                  |   14 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig               |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c         |  187 +-------------------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvmdio.c              |  136 +++++++++++---
>  7 files changed, 226 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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