netdev - Re: [PATCH] of_mdio: use of_property_read_u32

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 11:01:01 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of_mdio: use of_property_read_u32_array()

On 08/07/2017 09:18 AM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 08/07/2017 05:18 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
>>> The "fixed-link" prop support predated of_property_read_u32_array(), so
>>> basically had to open-code it. Using the modern API saves 24 bytes of
>>> the
>>> object code (ARM gcc 4.8.5); the only behavior change would be that the
>>> prop length check is now less strict (however the strict pre-check done
>>> in of_phy_is_fixed_link() is left intact anyway)...
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> The patch is against the 'dt/next' branch of Rob Herring's
>>> 'linux-git' repo
>>> plus the previously posted patch killing the useless local variable in
>>> of_phy_register_fixed_link().
>>
>> It shouldn't depend on anything in my tree and David normally takes
>> of_mdio.c changes.
> 
>    MAINTAINERS still only point at the DT repo, perhaps it should be
> updated?

More or less done with this (minus the repo part):

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/795887/
-- 
Florian