Re: [PATCH] net: smc91x: improve neponset hack

[David Miller]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:47:06 +0100

> On Thursday 19 February 2015 00:35:49 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 08:47:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > The smc91x driver tries to support multiple platforms at compile
>> > time, but they are mutually exclusive at runtime, and not clearly
>> > defined.
>> 
>> I'd prefer to rework this to fix that properly.  From what I remember,
>> the whole SA11x0 stuff in this driver was a mess.
> 
> I guess that's reasonable. I've looked through the driver and it seems we
> did most of the multiplatform work but left a few things alone that should
> have been converted a long time ago.
> 
> Can you check if the approach below makes sense to you?
> 
> I've verified that each machine that defines an smc91x device now sets
> the correct platform data, irq flags and access width, which should be
> enough to collapse all the CONFIG_ARM cases into one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This is a nice cleanup but for 'net' to fix the build error I prefer
the original one-line patch.

We can apply this thing here to net-next.
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