On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 01:44:03AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:

The machine type check is there to protect from (theoretical) cases
where the n2100 code (incl. the RTL8169 quirk) may be compiled in,
but the kernel is used on another machine.

That is far from a theoretical case. The ARM port has always supported
multiple machines in a single kernel. They just had to be "compatible"
in other words, the same SoC. All the platforms supported by
arch/arm/mach-iop32x can be built as a single kernel image and run on
any of those platforms.

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