From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:39:11 +0100 (WEST) Received: from mail3.caviumnetworks.com ([12.108.191.235]:2898 "EHLO mail3.caviumnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022422AbZFDPjF (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:39:05 +0100 Received: from caexch01.caveonetworks.com (Not Verified[192.168.16.9]) by mail3.caviumnetworks.com with MailMarshal (v6,2,2,3503) id ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:37:59 -0400 Received: from caexch01.caveonetworks.com ([192.168.16.9]) by caexch01.caveonetworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:37:32 -0700 Received: from dd1.caveonetworks.com ([64.169.86.201]) by caexch01.caveonetworks.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:37:32 -0700 Message-ID: <4A27EA3C.2020407@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:37:32 -0700 From: David Daney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Fainelli CC: Greg KH , David Miller , gregkh@suse.de, Ralf Baechle , linux-mips Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver. References: <4A00DA84.5040101@caviumnetworks.com> <20090603235428.GB19375@kroah.com> <200906040949.53167.florian@openwrt.org> In-Reply-To: <200906040949.53167.florian@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jun 2009 15:37:32.0579 (UTC) FILETIME=[606B1F30:01C9E52A] 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: 23282 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: ddaney@caviumnetworks.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Florian Fainelli wrote: > Le Thursday 04 June 2009 01:54:28 Greg KH, vous avez écrit : >> 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. >> Ok, as Ralf doesn't seem to have responded to my previous query, I'll >> just merge the last driver, and mark it CONFIG_BROKEN which you can turn >> off when the infrastructure portions go in. >> >> Sound reasonable? > > Cannot we get this driver merged via David Miller's tree instead ? It has been > rock solid here and does not seem too ugly for a net-next-2.6 inclusion imho. The driver is not suitable for drivers/net at this time. I would not want to subject David Miller to the ugliness contained within. Although it does process network packets reliably, it really is only suitable for the staging tree at this time. David Daney.