From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:50:04 +0100 (WEST) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.153]:2221 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022351AbZFDHt6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:49:58 +0100 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so212551fge.9 for ; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:49:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=T9GRYk3HS1OUnG+AhAAbyoK3MZ/MAuRVxUmXWlg2b78=; b=eaODcN+QvbX/TXfWvki9x4Daj3yVHEEbDcrKh3xpE+9YtytD5K7+K5kGpsB2f08PQs ajDo+lCmtmK88bMNE22g+T3ixe/I5B2+K6ScSvEeFoEk4kWQ1g7OQYx24hqBAFRe3Kla Vm/z7qTaqmM6g0MwB5GqazsYJB+/y2NxNvLzs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=fnoy2JTzYfn0xuJyqO1dDgWj2ACqxRYQBfDd70rmhhHuUHWG5e6v6xiGBEvN3R/l+n xAjdT3XUY5qkInId6FfaD9hfpuB3vPfQOpNuS5RMssm+coURMg/BnJRd2t9Hd8m5Du9U oKRtNidgi9m/HH0mO44ymuiAdjMbq6MxkkVZY= Received: by 10.86.96.1 with SMTP id t1mr2097121fgb.68.1244101797557; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florian.lab.openpattern.org (lab.openpattern.org [82.240.16.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm1136653fga.16.2009.06.04.00.49.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:49:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Florian Fainelli To: Greg KH , David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver. Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:49:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: David Daney , gregkh@suse.de, Ralf Baechle , linux-mips References: <4A00DA84.5040101@caviumnetworks.com> <20090603235428.GB19375@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20090603235428.GB19375@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906040949.53167.florian@openwrt.org> 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: 23235 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: florian@openwrt.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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. -- Best regards, Florian Fainelli Email : florian@openwrt.org http://openwrt.org -------------------------------