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Subject: Re: Device tree aware EMAC driver
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 13:56 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> 
> Jeff, I've discussed this with BenH, and although there are some
> problems with the driver still, we think it's good enough to merge in
> 2.6.24, the warts can be fixed up later.  Please apply...

Or to be more precise:

This driver will work well for 4xx platforms and will allow us to move a
big step toward getting rid of arch/ppc. The issues with DMA mapping
really only concern the case where this is used within the cell "Axon"
southbridge, which doesn't happen on any released product at this stage.

Ben.