From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging: Octeon-ethernet driver.
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:29:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090604152944.GB19600@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906040949.53167.florian@openwrt.org>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:49:52AM +0200, 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.
That's up to the submitter, it seemed that they wanted it in staging
first for some reason.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 15:52 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
2009-06-04 7:49 ` Florian Fainelli
2009-06-04 15:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-06-04 15:37 ` David Daney
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