netdev - Re: [PATCH] netdev/phy: skip disabled mdio-mux nodes

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:19:58 +0000
From:	Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825@...escale.com>
To:	Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825@...escale.com>
CC:	"david.daney@...ium.com" <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev/phy: skip disabled mdio-mux nodes

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com> wrote:
> The mdio-mux driver scans all child mdio nodes, without regard to whether
> the node is actually used.  Some device trees include all possible
> mdio-mux nodes and rely on the boot loader to disable those that are not
> present, based on some run-time configuration.  Those nodes need to be
> skipped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
> ---

Mr. Miller,

Any chance this patch can get into 3.6?  I don't know if it qualifies
as a fix or not, but getting it into 3.6 would make it easier for me
to apply other patches to the powerpc tree.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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