From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jie Deng Subject: Re: stmmac driver... Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 18:05:00 +0800 Message-ID: <59b37368-8670-659a-c257-034f73a83136@synopsys.com> References: <20161207.130654.1484281922991494182.davem@davemloft.net> <20161208.102552.714315690167693892.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , To: David Miller , Return-path: Received: from smtprelay.synopsys.com ([198.182.47.9]:60157 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246AbcLIKFF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 05:05:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20161208.102552.714315690167693892.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016/12/8 23:25, David Miller wrote: > From: Alexandre Torgue > Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:55:04 +0100 > >> Maybe I forget some series. Do you have others in mind ? > Please see the thread titled: > > "net: ethernet: Initial driver for Synopsys DWC XLGMAC" > > which seems to be discussing consolidation of various drivers > for the same IP core, of which stmmac is one. > > I personally am against any change of the driver name and > things like this, and wish the people doing that work would > simply contribute to making whatever changes they need directly > to the stmmac driver. > > You really need to voice your opinion when major changes are being > proposed for the driver you maintain. > Hi David and Alex, XLGMAC is not a version of GMAC. Synopsys has several IPs and each IP has several versions. GMAC(QoS): 3.5, 3.7, 4.0, 4.10, 4.20... XGMAC: 1.00, 1.10, 1.20, 2.00, 2.10, 2.11... XLGMAC (Synopsys DesignWare Core Enterprise Ethernet): this is a new IP. Regards, Jie