Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: smc91x: isolate u16 writes alignment workaround

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Oct 13 2016 - 09:50:33 EST


From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 22:33:45 +0200

> Writes to u16 has a special handling on 3 PXA platforms, where the
> hardware wiring forces these writes to be u32 aligned.
>
> This patch isolates this handling for PXA platforms as before, but
> enables this "workaround" to be set up dynamically, which will be the
> case in device-tree build types.
>
> This patch was tested on 2 PXA platforms : mainstone, which relies on
> the workaround, and lubbock, which doesn't.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>

Please resubmit this patch series:

1) Respun against net-next, these don't currently apply cleanly there.

2) With a proper "[PATCH 0/3] ..." posting explaining at a high level
what this patch series does, how it does it, and why it does it
that way.

Thanks.