netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: iop32x: improve N2100 PCI broken parity quirk

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Message-ID: <20210106005257.GH1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jan 2021 00:52:58 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: iop32x: improve N2100 PCI broken parity quirk

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:44:03AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> The machine type check is there to protect from (theoretical) cases
> where the n2100 code (incl. the RTL8169 quirk) may be compiled in,
> but the kernel is used on another machine.

That is far from a theoretical case. The ARM port has always supported
multiple machines in a single kernel. They just had to be "compatible"
in other words, the same SoC. All the platforms supported by
arch/arm/mach-iop32x can be built as a single kernel image and run on
any of those platforms.

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