netdev - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: lantiq: Remove separate GPHY Firmware loader

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Message-ID: <MWHPR2201MB127707BA7F4A45AE606E803BC17A0@MWHPR2201MB1277.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:19:53 +0000
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
CC:     Paul Burton <pburton@...ecomp.com>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "john@...ozen.org" <john@...ozen.org>,
        "martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com" 
        <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: lantiq: Remove separate GPHY Firmware loader

Hello,

Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> The separate GPHY Firmware loader driver is not used any more, the GPHY
> firmware is now loaded by the GSWIP switch driver which also makes use
> of the GPHY.
> Remove the old unused GPHY firmware loader driver.
> 
> The GPHY firmware is useless without an Ethernet and switch driver, it
> should not harm if loading this does not work for system using an old
> device tree.
> I am not aware of any vendor separating the device tree from the kernel
> binary, it should be ok to remove this.
> 
> The code and the functionality form this separate GPHY firmware loader
> was added to the gswip driver in commit 14fceff4771e ("net: dsa: Add
> Lantiq / Intel DSA driver for vrx200")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>

Applied to mips-next.

Thanks,
    Paul

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