netdev - Re: [PATCH] of_mdio: use of_property_read_u32

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Date:   Mon, 7 Aug 2017 13:44:59 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        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 Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> 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/

Really I'd like to see this fixed by moving of_mdio.c and of_net.c to
drivers/net/ as we've done for all other subsystems.

Rob