[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/9] net: tsec: Change compatible strings to match Linux

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 02:08:55 UTC 2019


On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 8:19 AM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the case of the tsec network driver, so far there has been no
> mainline user of DM_ETH where the DT bindings get used.
>
> In the case of the mdio bus, it looks like the "fsl,tsec-mdio" string
> was made up for the documentation, but there is no mainline code that
> parses the "compatible" property anyway.
>
> In both cases, there are no DT blobs that contain the old strings.
>
> So change the documentation to "fsl,etsec2" for the Ethernet ports and
> "fsl,etsec2-mdio" for the MDIO buses, which are strings that Linux also
> uses, at least for LS1021A.  More compatible strings can be added once
> other (PowerPC) SoCs are migrated to DM_ETH.
>
> The current ls1021a.dtsi doesn't match what was documented for the MDIO
> buses anyway (the "compatible" is "gianfar" currently). This will be
> fixed in the next patch.
>
> Fixes: 69a00875e3db ("doc: dt-bindings: Describe Freescale TSEC ethernet controller")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>
> Patch is new.
>
>  doc/device-tree-bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt | 4 ++--
>  drivers/net/tsec.c                            | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>


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