Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD

[Srinivas Kandagatla]

On 16/07/18 09:50, Sekhar Nori wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2018 11:30 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>
> > We're getting close to rc5 so I'd like to make a case for this series again.
> >
> > I understand that there's more to do than just the changes introduced
> > here, but we shouldn't try to fix several problems in many different
> > places at once. There's just too many moving pieces. I'd rather start
> > merging small improvements right away.
> >
> > The idea behind this series is to remove (almost) all users of
> > at24_platform_data. The davinci_emac patches are there only because we
> > need to remove some MAC adress reading stuff from the board files.
> > Having this code there and calling it back from EEPROM/MTD drivers is
> > already wrong and we should work towards using nvmem for that anyway.
> >
> > Currently for MTD the nvmem support series seems to be dead and it's
> > going to take some time before anything gets upstream.
> >
> > So I'd like to again ask you to consider picking up the patches from
> > this series to your respective trees or at the very least: I'd like to
> > ask Srinivas to pick up the nvmem patches and Sekhar to take the
> > first, non-controversial batch of davinci platform changes so that
> > we'll have less code to carry for the next release.
>
> I think those are patches 3-7. I can take those if I get an immutable
> commit over v4.18-rc1 from Srinivas with patches 1 & 2 applied.
nvmem patches go via Greg KH char-misc tree, if it makes things easy I 
can provide Ack on nvmem patches, so that you can take these patches via 
your tree?

Let me know.

--srini
> Thanks,
> Sekhar