On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 09:29:58PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > The ethernet controller used on kirkwood looses its MAC address > register contents when the corresponding clock is gated. As soon as > mv643xx_eth is built as module, the clock gets gated and when loading > the module, the MAC address is gone. > > Proper DT support for the mv643xx_eth driver is expected soon, so we add > a workaround to always enable ge0/ge1 clocks on kirkwood. This workaround > is also already used on non-DT kirkwood kernels. > > Reported-by: Simon Baatz <gmbno...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselba...@gmail.com> > --- > Changelog: > [v2] > - add note in patch description that MAC address is lost only when using > modular driver > - add note in patch description that the workaround will be removed soon > > Cc: Simon Baatz <gmbno...@gmail.com> > Cc: Jason Cooper <ja...@lakedaemon.net> > Cc: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> > Cc: Russell King <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> > Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > --- > arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/board-dt.c | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Applied to mvebu/fixes with Simon's Tested-by: thx, Jason. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
