[PATCH] PowerPC: Add BCM5248 and Marvell 88E1111 PHY support to NEW EMAC.

Jeff Garzik jeff at garzik.org
Tue Oct 16 05:04:33 EST 2007


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:53:26 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jeff at garzik.org> wrote:
>>>> Seems sane to me -- ACK -- but we have multiple people sending me 
>>>> patches for a single driver.  That's normal for janitorial cleanups 
>>>> across the whole tree, but discouraged when multiple people are actively 
>>>> working on the same driver.
>>>>
>>>> Please coordinate, and have ONE person send me patches...
>>> Who else is sending you patches?  Valentine is the only one I've seen
>>> send patches recently...
>> It's a zoo :)
> 
> Wow, indeed.
> 
>> Al Viro (3):
>>        typo in ibm_newemac/rgmii.c
> 
> Val sent this as well.  Either one works.
> 
>>        skb->tail in ibm_newemac should be skb_tail_pointer()
>>        ibm_newemac annotations (iomem, NULL noise)
> 
> Ack on those.
> 
>> David Gibson (1):
>>        Device tree aware EMAC driver
> 
> That's the initial commit :)
> 
>> Michael Ellerman (3):
>>        Update ibm_newemac to use dcr_host_t.base
>>        Add dcr_host_t.base in dcr_read()/dcr_write()
>>        Use dcr_host_t.base in dcr_unmap()
> 
> Missed those, but I see you applied them which is good.
> 
>> Roland Dreier (2):
>>        ibm_new_emac: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER() use
>>        ibm_emac: Convert to use napi_struct independent of struct net_device
> 
> I never saw either of these.  I'm also beginning to wonder if one of
> them broke things because I can't currently get ibm_newemac to work.
> 
>> vbarshak at ru.mvista.com (1):
>>        Fix typo in new EMAC driver.
> 
> Same fix as Al's.

All those are what's upstream, except for the Michael Ellerman patches. 
  FWIW it was generated using

	git log drivers/net/ibm_newemac | git shortlog


> Anyway, we can queue patches to this through me if you'd like.

I would ideally like a single active patch generator (even if they are 
merely reviewed others work sometimes).

Outside of that, I'm hoping you and the other people listed making 
changes will self-organize without my help :)

	Jeff






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