Re: [PATCH 0/4] net: stmmac: revert the EMAC bindings

From: Chen-Yu Tsai
Date: Sun Aug 27 2017 - 08:42:39 EST


On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The bindings of the stmmac glue for the new Allwinner EMAC controller
> are still controversial and being discussed, even though they've been
> merged in 4.13.
>
> In order not to introduce any binding we do not really want to commit
> to in a stable release, especially since that would mean we would have
> to support both the right and old bindings, let's revert them.
>
> We will reintroduce them in due time, once the discussion has settled
> down.
>
> The first three patches should go through the arm-soc tree, the last
> one through the net tree. All of them must be treated as fixes.
>
> Thanks!
> Maxime
>
> Maxime Ripard (4):
> dt-bindings: net: Revert sun8i dwmac binding
> arm64: dts: allwinner: Revert EMAC changes
> arm: dts: sunxi: Revert EMAC changes
> net: stmmac: sun8i: Remove the compatibles
>
> .../devicetree/bindings/net/dwmac-sun8i.txt | 84 ----------------------
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-zero.dts | 9 ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-bananapi-m2-plus.dts | 19 -----
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-beelink-x2.dts | 8 ---

I think this particular change is in -next, not v4.13-rc.

Otherwise, whole series is

Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>

> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dts | 7 --
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-2.dts | 8 ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-one.dts | 8 ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc-plus.dts | 5 --
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc.dts | 8 ---
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus.dts | 22 ------
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sun8i-h3-orangepi-plus2e.dts | 16 -----
> arch/arm/boot/dts/sunxi-h3-h5.dtsi | 26 -------
> .../boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-bananapi-m64.dts | 17 -----
> .../boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dts | 15 ----
> .../arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dts | 18 -----
> .../dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64-sopine-baseboard.dts | 17 -----
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-a64.dtsi | 20 ------
> .../boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h5-nanopi-neo2.dts | 17 -----
> .../boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h5-orangepi-pc2.dts | 17 -----
> .../dts/allwinner/sun50i-h5-orangepi-prime.dts | 17 -----
> drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c | 8 ---
> 21 files changed, 366 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/dwmac-sun8i.txt
>
> --
> 2.13.5
>