From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [v2,net-next,1/3] net: stmmac: enable multiple buffers Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:17:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20170324111736.GB22281@lunn.ch> References: <1eb1ee4c84f61ff8dbc3f398f2e3f9b0bea3ee30.1489766674.git.jpinto@synopsys.com> <20170323171725.GA12548@ulmo.ba.sec> <2ec8451b-4d12-d7ea-a2ce-4f1add382df4@synopsys.com> <20170324074255.GB16730@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thierry Reding , davem@davemloft.net, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, alexandre.torgue@st.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Joao Pinto Return-path: Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:59654 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932442AbdCXLRu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Mar 2017 07:17:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Yes it would be fantastic to have a set of boards, but I rarely see this in any > maintainer :). Being a Marvell SoC and switch maintainer, i have around a dozen boards. Some i got some simply by asking the manufacture, others i purchased. I don't think i'm in the minority here. Without having access to a number of different hardwares, i don't feel i would be doing my work properly. > I try as hard as I can to network with people and try to minimize this > situations, but when there is so many different setups using a driver with diff > configurations, situations like this can happen, but I am here to help debugging > and solving them. You made a move to rename stmmac to synopsys not long ago. It gave the impression that synopsis wants to take over this driver. If there are a number of different configurations, who better than synopsys to actually properly test these configurations? If you ask around, i'm sure people will send you hardware. Andrew