Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD | From | Sekhar Nori <> | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:27:00 +0530 |
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On Monday 16 July 2018 02:26 PM, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote: > > > On 16/07/18 09:50, Sekhar Nori wrote: >> On Friday 13 July 2018 11:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: >> >>> We're getting close to rc5 so I'd like to make a case for this series >>> again. >>> >>> I understand that there's more to do than just the changes introduced >>> here, but we shouldn't try to fix several problems in many different >>> places at once. There's just too many moving pieces. I'd rather start >>> merging small improvements right away. >>> >>> The idea behind this series is to remove (almost) all users of >>> at24_platform_data. The davinci_emac patches are there only because we >>> need to remove some MAC adress reading stuff from the board files. >>> Having this code there and calling it back from EEPROM/MTD drivers is >>> already wrong and we should work towards using nvmem for that anyway. >>> >>> Currently for MTD the nvmem support series seems to be dead and it's >>> going to take some time before anything gets upstream. >>> >>> So I'd like to again ask you to consider picking up the patches from >>> this series to your respective trees or at the very least: I'd like to >>> ask Srinivas to pick up the nvmem patches and Sekhar to take the >>> first, non-controversial batch of davinci platform changes so that >>> we'll have less code to carry for the next release. >> >> I think those are patches 3-7. I can take those if I get an immutable >> commit over v4.18-rc1 from Srinivas with patches 1 & 2 applied.
> nvmem patches go via Greg KH char-misc tree, if it makes things easy I > can provide Ack on nvmem patches, so that you can take these patches via > your tree? > > Let me know.
I can do that.
Greg, are you fine with this? It will be great to have your ack for patches 1/8 and 2/18.
Thanks, Sekhar
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