Re: [PATCH 4/8] net: bcmgenet: use platform_device_set_fwnode()
Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
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On 7/20/26 07:38, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 11:24:51AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: >> Prefer the higher-level platform_device_set_fwnode() over the >> OF-specific platform_device_set_of_node() for dynamically allocated >> platform devices. > > Why? > > This driver is OF only. It does not support ACPI, and probably never > will. In general, networking and ACPI don't go together, ACPI is not > sufficiently advanced. > > What is you use case here? The driver has been, or was used on ACPI-based platforms: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=99c6b06a37d4cab118c45448fef9d28df62d35d8 -- Florian
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