# Re: \[PATCH 2/2\] net-next: ethernet: mediatek: change the compatible string

- From: David Miller \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-01-25 19:36:20 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/01/8134251
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-devicetree/2017/01/8134251/t.md

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From: John Crispin <redacted>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:20:55 +0100

> When the binding was defined, I was not aware that mt2701 was an earlier
> version of the SoC. For sake of consistency, the ethernet driver should
> use mt2701 inside the compat string as this is the earliest SoC with the
> ethernet core.
> 
> The ethernet driver is currently of no real use until we finish and
> upstream the DSA driver. There are no users of this binding yet. It should
> be safe to fix this now before it is too late and we need to provide
> backward compatibility for the mt7623-eth compat string.
> 
> Reported-by: Sean Wang <redacted>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <redacted>

Applied.
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