netdev - Re: [patch 1/4] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c: add alias entry for portN properties

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Message-Id: <20130913.195857.1842211951469893139.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ohering@...e.com,
	cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, jeffm@...e.com, jslaby@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c: add
 alias entry for portN properties

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:52:01 -0700

> From: Olaf Hering <ohering@...e.com>
> Subject: drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c: add alias entry for portN properties
> 
> Use separate table for alias entries in the ehea module, otherwise the
> probe() function will operate on the separate ports instead of the
> lhea-"root" entry of the device-tree
> 
> Addresses https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435215
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <ohering@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

This can definitely have consequences and in particular potentially cause
a device to not get probed properly.

Therefore I want an ehea driver maintainer to review and ACK this before
I apply it.

Thanks.
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