netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net-next: ethernet: mediatek: change the compatible string

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:36:20 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     john@...ozen.org
Cc:     robh+dt@...nel.org, matthias.bgg@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        sean.wang@...iatek.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net-next: ethernet: mediatek: change the
 compatible string

From: John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:20:55 +0100

> When the binding was defined, I was not aware that mt2701 was an earlier
> version of the SoC. For sake of consistency, the ethernet driver should
> use mt2701 inside the compat string as this is the earliest SoC with the
> ethernet core.
> 
> The ethernet driver is currently of no real use until we finish and
> upstream the DSA driver. There are no users of this binding yet. It should
> be safe to fix this now before it is too late and we need to provide
> backward compatibility for the mt7623-eth compat string.
> 
> Reported-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>

Applied.