From: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>
To: John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Stephen Neuendorffer <stephenn@xilinx.com>,
linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:12:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AB4532.5030708@dlasys.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819214207.084C115A8055@mail165-dub.bigfish.com>
John Linn wrote:
>
> What about you getting all the review & testing done and then we
> (Xilinx) will add the OF support to the driver?
>
> I doubt the powerpc mainline will take the driver without OF support. In
> fact, we had to remove the platform bus support from the last driver
> that we put into mainline for arch/powerpc.
>
That is perfectly fine with me. i will try to pull the xilinx git tree
and see how much closer I can make the probe so that converting will be
easier.
>
>
> xilinx_lltemac is the preferred.
>
> I don't think using xilinx_lltemac should cause problems. Our Xilinx
> Git tree has a xilinx_lltemac subdir that contains the non-flat driver
> but that should be ok with your xilinx_lltemac.c file in the net
> directory.
>
The next patch incarnation will have everything as xilinx_lltemac -
including the file as xilinx_lltemac.c
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2008-08-19 9:34 [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 Ethernet NIC David H. Lynch Jr.
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2008-08-19 21:42 ` [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC John Linn
2008-08-19 22:12 ` David H. Lynch Jr. [this message]
2008-08-20 17:39 ` John Linn
2008-08-22 16:10 ` [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 Ethernet NIC Sergey Temerkhanov
2008-08-22 16:14 ` Sergey Temerkhanov
2008-09-14 0:13 ` Jeff Garzik
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2008-08-17 4:59 David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-08-18 17:01 ` [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC Stephen Neuendorffer
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