From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: mitch.a.williams@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
stephen@networkplumber.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel proper
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:23:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130906.142302.514119919125432228.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378491615.19204.10.camel@joe-AO722>
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:20:15 -0700
> 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.
Agreed, this is rediculous.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 6:01 [net-next v5 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 1/8] i40e: main driver core Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 2/8] i40e: transmit, receive, and NAPI Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 3/8] i40e: driver ethtool core Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 4/8] i40e: driver core headers Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 5/8] i40e: implement virtual device interface Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 6/8] i40e: init code and hardware support Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 7/8] i40e: debugfs interface Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:01 ` [net-next v5 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel proper Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-06 6:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-06 6:28 ` [E1000-devel] " Brandeburg, Jesse
2013-09-06 6:47 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-06 17:28 ` Williams, Mitch A
2013-09-06 17:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-06 18:20 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-06 18:23 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-09-06 18:01 ` David Miller
2013-09-06 18:30 ` Jesse Brandeburg
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