From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver.
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:54:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603235428.GB19375@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A00DA84.5040101@caviumnetworks.com>
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?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-06 0:32 [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: Add named alloc functions to OCTEON boot monitor memory allocator David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] MIPS: Export cvmx_sysinfo_get needed by octeon-ethernet driver David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] MIPS: Cavium-Octeon: Add more board type constants David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: Cavium-Octeon: Add more chip specific feature tests David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] MIPS: Export erratum function needed by octeon-ethernet driver David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] [Staging] Add octeon-ethernet driver files David Daney
2009-05-06 0:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] [Staging] Hookup octeon-ethernet driver David Daney
2009-05-06 5:14 ` [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver Greg KH
2009-06-16 10:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-06-16 16:26 ` Greg KH
2009-06-03 23:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-06-04 7:49 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-06-04 15:29 ` Greg KH
2009-06-04 15:37 ` David Daney
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