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From: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peppe.cavallaro@st.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] stmmac patches
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:47:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120124204710.GA29113@mail.gnudd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120124.154311.1857537203481263793.davem@davemloft.net>

>> The second patch is a cleanup, already acked by both authors.
> 
> I'm not applying this, instead if you want to make changes in this
> area then fix this driver so that it can properly support multiple
> device instances.

Ok, I'll do, but not soon.
 
> I can't even imagine ever writing a driver where from the start
> it can handle only one device instance, this is pure insanity
> especially for a PCI device driver.

I agree. But it _already_ is like this. I just want the fact to be
clear, so when somebody burns two macs in the fpga it will complain
instead of breaking.   That said, I have no problem if you still
refuse it.

> You're breaking things for anyone using 'stmmaceth='.  So I'm not
> applying this patch either.

Fine with me.

thanks
/alessandro

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-24 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-24  9:08 [PATCH 0/3] stmmac patches Alessandro Rubini
2012-01-24  9:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] stmmac: added PCI identifiers Alessandro Rubini
2012-01-24  9:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] stmmac: err out on second probe; use precompiled static structures Alessandro Rubini
2012-01-24  9:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] stmmac: remove kernel cmdline parsing Alessandro Rubini
2012-01-24 20:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] stmmac patches David Miller
2012-01-24 20:47 ` Alessandro Rubini [this message]

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