From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, cheol.yong.kim@intel.com,
Jack Ping CHNG <jack.ping.chng@intel.com>,
andriy.shevchenko@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mallikarjunax.reddy@linux.intel.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] staging: intel-dpa: gswip: Introduce Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GSWIP) device driver
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 17:42:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104164209.GC16970@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191104122009.GA2126921@kroah.com>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 01:20:09PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 07:22:20PM +0800, Jack Ping CHNG wrote:
> > This driver enables the Intel's LGM SoC GSWIP block.
> > GSWIP is a core module tailored for L2/L3/L4+ data plane and QoS functions.
> > It allows CPUs and other accelerators connected to the SoC datapath
> > to enqueue and dequeue packets through DMAs.
> > Most configuration values are stored in tables such as
> > Parsing and Classification Engine tables, Buffer Manager tables and
> > Pseudo MAC tables.
>
> Why is this being submitted to staging? What is wrong with the "real"
> part of the kernel for this?
Or even, what is wrong with the current driver?
drivers/net/dsa/lantiq_gswip.c?
Jack, your patch does not seem to of made it to any of the lists. So i
cannot comment on it contents. If this is a switch driver, please
ensure you Cc: the usual suspects for switch drivers.
Andrew
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[not found] <03832ecb6a34876ef26a24910816f22694c0e325.1572863013.git.jack.ping.chng@intel.com>
2019-11-04 12:20 ` [PATCH v1] staging: intel-dpa: gswip: Introduce Gigabit Ethernet Switch (GSWIP) device driver Greg KH
2019-11-04 16:42 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
[not found] ` <4D649A99D5D6C446954219080E51FB468192606D@BGSMSX103.gar.corp.intel.com>
2019-11-07 9:47 ` Chng, Jack Ping
2019-11-04 19:19 ` David Miller
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