Re: [PATCH 0/2] Enable smsc911x for use with ACPI

From: Jeremy Linton <redacted>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 17:06:25 -0500

This set of patches enables the front Ethernet port on the
ARM Juno development platform when used with an ACPI enabled kernel.

These patches covert the of_property* calls in the driver to the
DT/ACPI agnostic device_property* calls, and add the arm hardware
id to the acpi_match_table.

To support the above changes I copied a couple routines from
of_net into the properties.c file, and modified them to
be ACPI/DT agnostic. I'm not 100% sure this is the correct location
for these functions. But I think they are required to avoid having
a dozen different implementations scattered across assorted Ethernet
adapters that are being enabled to use ACPI properties.

I realize that there are still some rinkles to work out, but I applied
this patch series as-is to net-next, and any fixups should be
submitted as followups.

Thanks.