From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lennert Buytenhek Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:00:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20070516120024.GE16262@xi.wantstofly.org> References: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> <20070516071300.GB14222@infradead.org> <20070516094100.GB16262@xi.wantstofly.org> <464AE10E.7090606@whitby.id.au> <20070516105626.GC16262@xi.wantstofly.org> <464AEC76.7090000@whitby.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Tomasz Chmielewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Jones , Krzysztof Halasa To: Rod Whitby Return-path: Received: from alephnull.demon.nl ([83.160.184.112]:33656 "EHLO xi.wantstofly.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761339AbXEPMAb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 08:00:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <464AEC76.7090000@whitby.id.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:05:18PM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote: > >> So, if the author of these patches wishes to concentrate on big-endian > >> support first, then we will not say (and have not said) anything which > >> will block inclusion of a big-endian only version of this driver. > > > > The NSLU2 people are the ones here that are saying that the driver > > should really support LE (because that is what they happen to be > > using, the rest of the world runs the ixp4xx in BE) > > I'll repeat again. NSLU2-Linux supports both BE and LE. We have > about 5,000 users running BE and about 5,000 users running LE. Perhaps, but somehow I don't think that we'd have seen any reaction if the submitted driver had only supported LE and not BE. > > Please just write the patch and let's get this over with. > > Please let's just stop arguing about it. If a patch appears before > it gets merged, then great. If it doesn't then it will appear at a > later date. Great. I agree.