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

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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
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