From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:32:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56786 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491816AbZFPQcV (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:32:21 +0200 Received: from relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CC687D82; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:31:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:26:48 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ralf Baechle Cc: David Daney , linux-mips Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver. Message-ID: <20090616162648.GI26879@suse.de> References: <4A00DA84.5040101@caviumnetworks.com> <20090506051438.GA6134@suse.de> <20090616100137.GB13622@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090616100137.GB13622@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 23435 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: gregkh@suse.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:01:37AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:32:04PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > > > This patch set introduces the octeon-ethernet driver into the > > > drivers/staging tree. The Octeon is a mips64r2 base multi-core SOC > > > family. > > > > > > The first five patches are small tweaks to the existing octeon support > > > that are required by the ethernet driver. I would expect them to be > > > merged via Ralf's linux-mips.org tree. > > > > > > The last two are the driver, and would probably be merged via the > > > drivers/staging tree. However since they depend on the first five, > > > they probably shouldn't be merged until those five are merged. > > > > Ralf, if you want to take the 2 staging driver patches, that's fine with > > me to make it easier. Or if you want me to merge it, on the next merge > > window, with the mips patches through my tree, I can do that as well. > > > > Which ever is easier for you. > > As per recent discussions I've queued the driver. Will go to Linus as part > of the next pull. Great, thanks for doing this. greg k-h