Re: [v2,net-next,1/3] net: stmmac: enable multiple buffers

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:17:36 +0100

>> Yes it would be fantastic to have a set of boards, but I rarely see this in any
>> maintainer :).
> 
> Being a Marvell SoC and switch maintainer, i have around a dozen
> boards. Some i got some simply by asking the manufacture, others i
> purchased. I don't think i'm in the minority here. Without having
> access to a number of different hardwares, i don't feel i would be
> doing my work properly.
> 
>> I try as hard as I can to network with people and try to minimize this
>> situations, but when there is so many different setups using a driver with diff
>> configurations, situations like this can happen, but I am here to help debugging
>> and solving them.
> 
> You made a move to rename stmmac to synopsys not long ago. It gave the
> impression that synopsis wants to take over this driver. If there are
> a number of different configurations, who better than synopsys to
> actually properly test these configurations? If you ask around, i'm
> sure people will send you hardware.

I completely agree with everything Andrew is saying here.