From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] synopsys: remove dwc_eth_qos driver Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:48:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20170112.104803.240247212224131685.davem@davemloft.net> References: <2d50f9fea61de2eb082b217d435334d40e3e01ad.1484214626.git.jpinto@synopsys.com> <20170112.102802.1485105708725148022.davem@davemloft.net> <0eb32fee-0354-522d-72c4-3d1105ec04ed@synopsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lars.persson@axis.com, niklass@axis.com, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Joao.Pinto@synopsys.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:51054 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819AbdALPsF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2017 10:48:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <0eb32fee-0354-522d-72c4-3d1105ec04ed@synopsys.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Joao Pinto Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:46:31 +0000 > Hope we can meet in a LinuxCon soon and have a talk, for you to know > me and this way you will see that I am a guy that is only focused in > producing work the best way possible, and nothing else. I do not argue your intentions. I argue the side effects of your change for the ecosystem of long term maintaince and backporting, and what tangible benefit this change brings to users.