[U-Boot] [PATCH v7] net: ll_temac: Add LL TEMAC driver to u-boot

Wolfgang Denk
2012-01-11T16:07:04Z

Dear Stephan Linz,

In message <1325956366.18981.47.camel@keto> you wrote:
>
> I'll provide the same way for the Xilinx LL_TEMAC driver as for the
> Xilinx AXI-EMAC driver. I prepare the microblaze-generic board code to
> support all potential Ethernet drivers but leave out the specific usage.
> You are right when you say that there is no code that refere to the new
> driver code -- there are also no configuration for this. And yes we
> adapt/change the xparameters.h out of mainline tree to enable the driver
> code -- but I think, that is not really a "out of tree port".
>
> But what would be the best implementation for unspecified targets here?

The question is actually a very simple one here: is there any board
configuration in mainline that will actually compile and link against
this driver? If yes, then everything is fine. If not, we would not
even know if there were gross syntax errors in that code, and we would
never notce when changes to other parts break compatibility with it.

This is why I will not add any code that is not used in mainline -
out-of-tree users don't help a bit.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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