From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move some Octeon support files out of staging. Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:45:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20111111004517.GA32432@suse.de> References: <1320971387-29343-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, David Daney To: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49773 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752336Ab1KKAqb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:46:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1320971387-29343-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:29:44PM -0800, ddaney.cavm@gmail.com wrote: > From: David Daney > > First patch: > > In preparation for my next set of patches to add device tree support > for Octeon, move some files out of drivers/staging/octeon to common > location. There are two basic types of files I am moving: > > 1) Register definition files. Most Octeon register definition files > are in arch/mips/include/asm/octeon, put the rest there too. > > 2) Low level packet port type probing code. This is needed by both > the Ethernet driver and the code that fixes up the in-kernel device > trees. Although new board pass a device tree to the kernel, > support of legacy boards requires that this probing code be used to > fix up an in-kernel device tree template. > > > Second patch: > > Update support for legacy boards. > > > Third patch: > > Seperate probing and initialization of packet ports. > > > Since these are MIPS architecture files we could merge via Ralf's tree > if approved. If Ralf approves of these changes, that's fine with me and they can go through his tree: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman thanks, greg k-h