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

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Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:47:51 +0530
From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC:     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()

On Thursday 19 July 2018 09:05 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 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.

Its not that I want it that way, but we cannot get rid of board files
till DT has equivalent support.

The bigger issue is not on DA850, but on the 5 older DaVinci SoCs which
do not support device-tree based boot today.

Thanks,
Sekhar