On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> wrote:
> Commit 107a84e61cdd3406c842a0e4be7efffd3a05dba6 ("of: match by compatible
> property first") breaks the gianfar ethernet driver found on various
> Freescale PPC chips.
>
> There are, for unfortunate historical reasons, two nodes with a
> compatible of "gianfar".
Would it be worth updating the binding for the two nodes to make the
compatible property different? We could do something like this:
ethernet@24000 {
reg = <0x24000 0x1000>;
compatible = "fsl,gianfar-eth", "gianfar";
...
};
(and something similar for MDIO nodes)
and update all the drivers to look for both strings. After a few
years, we can delete "gianfar".
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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