From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:29:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:60659 "EHLO h5.dl5rb.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1493112AbZFWV3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:29:36 +0200 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5NLQ1wh009508; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:26:02 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by h5.dl5rb.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5NLQ0Tq009506; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:26:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:25:59 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: David Daney Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Convert to use net_device_ops. Message-ID: <20090623212559.GA9358@linux-mips.org> References: <1245782048-24058-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245782048-24058-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 23477 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:34:08AM -0700, David Daney wrote: > Convert the driver to use net_device_ops as it is now mandatory. > > Also compensate for the removal of struct sk_buff's dst field. > > The changes are mostly mechanical, the content of ethernet-common.c > was moved to ethernet.c and ethernet-common.{c,h} are removed. > > Signed-off-by: David Daney > --- > > Although it is a staging driver, we may want to merge it via Ralf's > tree as Octeon is a MIPS SOC. Yes, this way it'll receive most testing. Greg, I assume you're ok with me merging this patch to Linus so I've commited it into the linux-mips.org repository. Ralf