From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:21:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48957 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1492943AbZFWWVY (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:21:24 +0200 Received: from relay1.suse.de (mail2.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 2B3375FC9F; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:18:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:32:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ralf Baechle Cc: David Daney , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Convert to use net_device_ops. Message-ID: <20090623213257.GA6691@suse.de> References: <1245782048-24058-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> <20090623212559.GA9358@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090623212559.GA9358@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: 23480 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 23, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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. No objection from me at all. thanks, greg k-h