netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: ethernet: xilinx: xilinx_emaclite: revert the original commit "1db3ddff1602edf2390b7667dcbaa0f71512e3ea"

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Message-Id: <20141105.160108.1964404762103732361.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:01:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	michal.simek@...inx.com
Cc:	gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com, soren.brinkmann@...inx.com,
	sthokal@...inx.com, manuel.schoelling@....de, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: ethernet: xilinx: xilinx_emaclite:
 revert the original commit "1db3ddff1602edf2390b7667dcbaa0f71512e3ea"

From: Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:19:41 +0100

> On 11/04/2014 03:43 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>> Microblaze is a fpga soft core, it can be customized easily, which may
>> cause many various hardware version strings.
>> 
>> So the original fix patch based on hard-coded compatible version strings
>> is not a good idea (although it is correct for current issue). For it,
>> there will be a new solving way soon (which based on the device tree).
>> 
>> The original issue is related with qemu, so can only change the hardware
>> version string in qemu for it, then keep the original driver no touch (
>> qemu is for virtualization which has much easier life than real world).
>> 
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_emaclite.c | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>

Applied, thanks.
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