netdev - Re: [PATCH] MDIO: FSL_PQ_MDIO: Fix bug on incorrect offset of tbipa register

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Message-ID: <51B8730F.2030606@advaoptical.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:09:35 +0300
From:	Oded Gabbay <ogabbay@...aoptical.com>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...i.org>
CC:	<benh@...nel.crashing.org>, <paulus@...ba.org>,
	<leoli@...escale.com>, <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	<B38951@...escale.com>, <Dongsheng.Wang@...escale.com>,
	<bigeasy@...utronix.de>, <stef.van.os@...drive.nl>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MDIO: FSL_PQ_MDIO: Fix bug on incorrect offset of tbipa
 register

Oded Gabbay wrote:
>> Note: This patch may break MDIO functionallity of some old 
>> Freescale's SoC
>> until Freescale will fix their device tree files. Basically, every 
>> device tree
>> which contains an mdio device that is compatible to "fsl,gianfar-tbi" 
>> should be
>> examined.
>
> On 06/12/2013 04:04 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I haven't had a chance to review the patch in detail, but I can tell 
> you that breaking compatibility with older device trees is 
> unacceptable.  You need to add some code, even if it's an ugly hack, 
> to support those trees.
>
I generally agree with this statement except that without this patch, 
almost ALL of Freescale's SoC that uses "fsl,gianfar-tbi" are broken, 
including the older ones. At least this patch fixes some of the device 
trees. Because I'm not working at Freescale, I have a very limited 
access to a few SoC which I could test this patch on. I think it is 
Freescale's responsibility to release a complementary patch to fix the 
rest of the SoC device trees.

Oded
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