From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1728ECDFAA for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B5A208FC for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ti.com header.i=@ti.com header.b="RVKk1VRG" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 87B5A208FC Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=ti.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730897AbeGPJTG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 05:19:06 -0400 Received: from lelv0143.ext.ti.com ([198.47.23.248]:42770 "EHLO lelv0143.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728061AbeGPJTG (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2018 05:19:06 -0400 Received: from dflxv15.itg.ti.com ([128.247.5.124]) by lelv0143.ext.ti.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w6G8p6GH029019; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:51:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ti.com; s=ti-com-17Q1; t=1531731066; bh=lSW2aZ9EO5Dqh2MpkZmVUsRh9OttLOpmfZKjTMB4Qbs=; h=Subject:To:CC:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=RVKk1VRGCX24BMk0Vq4/s1TCpMupAABAe0D3Af4bKlklyvvA5HK0W+3t6OUQn/ipj /oygQT0mfZYa/+o3M6E8hruZcdDGj3qq2boGNbT9Y893/sLOp5q9t8o9cZ5JRHL8qL wpuzUXyRHxOkcRMKVVHKkbK39xRrGoU2sYgXX+BI= Received: from DFLE109.ent.ti.com (dfle109.ent.ti.com [10.64.6.30]) by dflxv15.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w6G8p61H008366; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:51:06 -0500 Received: from DFLE100.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.21) by DFLE109.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.30) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256) id 15.1.1466.3; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:51:06 -0500 Received: from dflp32.itg.ti.com (10.64.6.15) by DFLE100.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_0, cipher=TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA) id 15.1.1466.3 via Frontend Transport; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:51:06 -0500 Received: from [172.24.190.172] (ileax41-snat.itg.ti.com [10.172.224.153]) by dflp32.itg.ti.com (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w6G8opgU022528; Mon, 16 Jul 2018 03:50:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] net: davinci_emac: potentially get the MAC address from MTD To: Bartosz Golaszewski CC: Ladislav Michl , Florian Fainelli , Kevin Hilman , Russell King , Grygorii Strashko , "David S . Miller" , Srinivas Kandagatla , Lukas Wunner , Rob Herring , Dan Carpenter , Ivan Khoronzhuk , David Lechner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Lunn , Jonathan Corbet , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , , , Bartosz Golaszewski References: <20180629094039.7543-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> <20180629094039.7543-9-brgl@bgdev.pl> <03b77e24-9ab9-fa01-2387-9de0408a9942@gmail.com> <20180704070919.GA14051@lenoch> From: Sekhar Nori Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:20:51 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: e1e8a2fd-e40a-4ac6-ac9b-f7e9cc9ee180 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Thanks, Sekhar