From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [v2,net-next,1/3] net: stmmac: enable multiple buffers Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:05:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170324.100557.1391035515160209574.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170324074255.GB16730@lunn.ch> <20170324111736.GB22281@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com, thierry.reding@gmail.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: andrew@lunn.ch Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:41354 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936392AbdCXRGB (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:06:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170324111736.GB22281@lunn.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Andrew Lunn 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.