From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752547AbbEAUzb (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 16:55:31 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33894 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751408AbbEAUz1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 May 2015 16:55:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 22:55:19 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Aaro Koskinen Cc: Ralf Baechle , David Daney , David Daney , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] MIPS: OCTEON: move all octeon-ethernet code to staging Message-ID: <20150501205519.GA2550@kroah.com> References: <1430509033-12113-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430509033-12113-1-git-send-email-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 10:37:02PM +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > Hi, > > In order to octeon-ethernet staging work to proceed, we should have all > the code in the same tree (staging). Currently, most of the driver code > actually lives in the MIPS tree in the "cvmx" helper or OS abstraction > routines and include files. Majority of this code needs refactoring > (or deletion) for the octeon-ethernet to become a normal Linux driver. > Since rest of the kernel does not need this code at all, it should > make sense to move it all into the same place while the driver > is being developed. > > This series does not make any functional changes, just moves the code. > Tested on EdgeRouter Lite, EdgeRouter Pro and D-Link DSR-1000N. Also build > tested with octeon-ethernet as built-in, module and completely disabled. > Patches are based on staging-next. I don't object to this, especially if it helps get the octeon code out of staging sooner. But I need an ack from the MIPS maintainers before I can accept this into the staging tree... thanks, greg k-h