[PATCH v2.6.26 0/2] Dynamic TBIPA for gianfar

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 16 23:31:10 EST 2008


On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Paul Gortmaker writes:
>>>>
>>>>> This is the resend of the two patches as per Andy's request for  
>>>>> v2.6.26
>>>>> that allow boards with a PHY at the end of the bus to function,  
>>>>> by having
>>>>> the TBIPA set dynamically.  The 1st patch factors out some of  
>>>>> the PHY
>>>>> probe code so it can be recycled by the TBIPA probe, and the  
>>>>> second patch
>>>>> implements the dynamic probe itself.
>>>>
>>>> I notice that these two patches only touch drivers/net and
>>>> include/linux.  If you want these to go upstream into Linus'  
>>>> tree, you
>>>> will need to send them to Jeff Garzik and the netdev list.  Posting
>>>> them to the linuxppc-dev list is fine for getting them reviewed but
>>>> isn't a path to upstream.
>>>
>>> Yep, they have already been sent to Jeff/netdev earlier today as  
>>> well.
>>> I'd inadvertently left them off the CC but Andy reminded me already.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul.
>>
>> these should get an Ack by Andy before going in to any tree.
>
> Andy has already done that, so I think we should be good to go.
>
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-April/054572.html

Cool.  I'm guessing these will go via jeff's tree for 2.6.26?

- k



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