RE: [PATCH 3.18 03/28] ARM: dts: imx53-qsb-common: fix FEC pinmux config

[Patrick BrÃnn]

>From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Montag, 13. November 2017 13:55
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>3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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>From: Patrick Bruenn <p.bruenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>[ Upstream commit 8b649e426336d7d4800ff9c82858328f4215ba01 ]
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>The pinmux configuration in device tree was different from manual
>muxing in <u-boot>/board/freescale/mx53loco/mx53loco.c
>All pins were configured as NO_PAD_CTL(1 << 31), which was fine as the
>bootloader already did the correct pinmuxing for us.
>But recently u-boot is migrating to reuse device tree files from the
>kernel tree, so it seems to be better to have the correct pinmuxing in
>our files, too.
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As discussed for 4.4 stable queue this patch might break existing machines, if they use a different pinmux configuration with their own bootloader.
I would drop it from 3.18, too.

Regards,
Patrick

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