Re: [PATCH v3] net: ethernet: faraday: To support device tree usage.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday, December 31, 2016 10:48:39 AM CET Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 
> On 12/29/2016 11:37 PM, Greentime Hu wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is not enough, you need to add a Device Tree binding document under
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ which documents this compatible
> string, as well as additional properties that may be required to
> describe this hardware block.

We already have

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/moxa,moxart-mac.txt

for the same hardware (though used by a different driver).

I'd suggest renaming that one to a more generic file name and
adding the new compatible string there.

Aside from that, every patch should also have a changelog comment.

	Arnd