From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel proper Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:20:15 -0700 Message-ID: <1378491615.19204.10.camel@joe-AO722> References: <1378447278-13998-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <1378447278-13998-9-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> ,<20130905231436.761d03c3@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <1378450038.19204.6.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Brandeburg, Jesse" , Stephen Hemminger , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "gospo@redhat.com" , "sassmann@redhat.com" To: "Williams, Mitch A" Return-path: Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:40053 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750833Ab3IFSUQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Sep 2013 14:20:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 17:28 +0000, Williams, Mitch A wrote: > My goal was to make our out-of-tree driver as close as possible - > including the makefiles - to the upstream driver. Doing this makes it > simpler for us to backport and forward-port patches. It makes it less > confusing for us when we're moving from one environment to the other. I think using things like #define i40e_memset memset is just odd.