From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Bryan.Whitehead@microchip.com
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,V2] Add LAN9352 Ethernet Driver
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:38:57 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216.163857.1276474496395829938.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90A7E81AE28BAE4CBDDB3B35F187D264402EFB82@CHN-SV-EXMX02.mchp-main.com>
From: <Bryan.Whitehead@microchip.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:32:20 +0000
> I just spoke with my manager, and we would like to change the target
> device from LAN9352 to LAN9250. The LAN9250 is the same as the
> LAN9352 but without the switch. It has one mac and one phy.
>
> Since there is no switch in that product, will that make a pure
> Ethernet driver easier to accept?
I'm not going to allow you to weasel away from doing things correctly
by doing this.
You are doing this so you can still put the pure ethernet driver into
the tree, and then off-tree you'll just add the device ID for the
switch device.
Sorry, that won't pass.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-11 18:58 [PATCH net-next,V2] Add LAN9352 Ethernet Driver Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-11 21:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-12 16:51 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-12 17:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-16 19:34 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 19:51 ` David Miller
2016-02-16 20:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-12 0:14 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2016-02-12 19:10 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 22:09 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2016-02-12 2:18 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-02-12 7:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-12 16:53 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-12 17:18 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-16 19:41 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 19:52 ` David Miller
2016-02-16 20:36 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-16 20:43 ` David Miller
2016-02-16 20:48 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 20:52 ` David Miller
2016-02-16 21:32 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 21:38 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-16 22:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-17 0:06 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-02-17 0:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-19 19:29 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-19 20:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-19 21:21 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-03-24 21:16 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-03-24 22:06 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-24 22:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-02-16 20:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-02-16 21:37 ` Bryan.Whitehead
2016-02-16 21:40 ` David Miller
2016-02-12 23:21 ` Bryan.Whitehead
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