From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jie Deng Subject: Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:13:57 +0800 Message-ID: <8910993f-f5ca-259c-c42b-207781a4ad51@synopsys.com> References: <2df7a6dd-1128-d1d6-bf61-891f76cf7200@synopsys.com> <20161209.103327.1742213347114742435.davem@davemloft.net> <93b73b79-36aa-56b8-f975-b890b7a48bd1@synopsys.com> <20161209.104152.1969880574279771010.davem@davemloft.net> <3aee5a67-5e19-34e6-1719-ff13c7b914ea@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Joao Pinto , Giuseppe CAVALLARO , , , netdev , To: Andy Shevchenko , Florian Fainelli Return-path: Received: from smtprelay.synopsys.com ([198.182.60.111]:43314 "EHLO smtprelay.synopsys.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751953AbcLJCOE (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 21:14:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016/12/10 8:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> It's kind of sad that customers of that IP (stmmac, amd-xgbe, sxgbe) >> did >> actually pioneer the upstreaming effort, but it is good to see people >> from Synopsys willing to fix that in the future. > Wait, you would like to tell that we have more than 2 drivers for the > same (okay, same vendor) IP?! > It's better to unify them earlier, than have n+ copies. > > P.S. Though, I don't see how sxgbe got in the list. First glance on > the code doesn't show similarities. Glance on sxgbe_reg.h the register seems from Synopsys XGMAC IP... Probably, amd-xgbe and sxgbe targeted the same IP