netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: eth: xgene: fix booting with devicetree

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Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:40:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	msalter@...hat.com
Cc:	fkan@....com, isubramanian@....com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: eth: xgene: fix booting with devicetree

From: Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2015 11:51:57 -0500

> Commit de7b5b3d790a ("net: eth: xgene: change APM X-Gene SoC platform
> ethernet to support ACPI") breaks booting with devicetree with UEFI
> firmware. In that case, I get:
 ...
> The problem here is that the enet hw clocks are not getting
> initialized because of a test to avoid the initialization if
> UEFI is used to boot. This is an incorrect test. When booting
> with UEFI and devicetree, the kernel must still initialize
> the enet hw clocks. If booting with ACPI, the clock hw is
> not exposed to the kernel and it is that case where we want
> to avoid initializing clocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks Mark.
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