From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Niklas Cassel Subject: Re: stmmac driver... Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:50:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20161207.130654.1484281922991494182.davem@davemloft.net> <20161208.102552.714315690167693892.davem@davemloft.net> <59b37368-8670-659a-c257-034f73a83136@synopsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: David Miller , alexandre.torgue@st.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, CARLOS.PALMINHA@synopsys.com, Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com To: Jie Deng Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com ([74.125.82.51]:34091 "EHLO mail-wm0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932926AbcLIKuw (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 05:50:52 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id u144so12418583wmu.1 for ; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 02:50:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <59b37368-8670-659a-c257-034f73a83136@synopsys.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Jie Deng In your cover letter you wrote dwc-eth-xxx.x The DWC ethernet core layer (DWC ECL). This layer contains codes can be shared by different DWC series ethernet cores Does this mean that code in dwc-eth-xxx.x is common to all the different Synopsys IPs, GMAC, XGMAC and XLGMAC ? Regards, Niklas On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jie Deng wrote: > > > 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 >