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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: smc91x: isolate u16 writes alignment workaround

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David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> Date: Sun,  9 Oct 2016 22:33:45 +0200
>
>> Writes to u16 has a special handling on 3 PXA platforms, where the
>> hardware wiring forces these writes to be u32 aligned.
>> 
>> This patch isolates this handling for PXA platforms as before, but
>> enables this "workaround" to be set up dynamically, which will be the
>> case in device-tree build types.
>> 
>> This patch was tested on 2 PXA platforms : mainstone, which relies on
>> the workaround, and lubbock, which doesn't.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
>
> Please resubmit this patch series:
>
> 1) Respun against net-next, these don't currently apply cleanly there.
>
> 2) With a proper "[PATCH 0/3] ..." posting explaining at a high level
>    what this patch series does, how it does it, and why it does it
>    that way.

Sure, let me retest it after the rebase, and I'll post again.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert

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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: smc91x: isolate u16 writes alignment  workaround David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-10-13 16:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] net: smc91x: isolate u16 writes alignment workaround Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> - 2016-10-14 08:20 +0200

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