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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	agraf@suse.de, arnd@arndb.de, alexandru.marginean@nxp.com,
	bogdan.hamciuc@nxp.com, stuart.yoder@nxp.com, roy.pledge@nxp.com,
	laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:58:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161206095800.GA4247@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161206093442.11362-8-ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:34:41AM -0600, Ioana Radulescu wrote:
> Add a list of TODO items for the Ethernet driver
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..833265b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +* Add a DPAA2 MAC kernel driver in order to allow PHY management; currently
> +  the DPMAC objects and their link to DPNIs are handled by MC internally
> +  and all PHYs are seen as fixed-link
> +* add more debug support: decide how to expose detailed debug statistics,
> +  add ingress error queue support
> +* MC firmware uprev; the DPAA2 objects used by the Ethernet driver need to
> +  be kept in sync with binary interface changes in MC
> +* refine README file
> +* cleanup

These seem like very minor things, why not just spend a week and do this
work and get it merged to the "correct" portion of the kernel tree?  Why
does this have to go into staging?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-06 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-06  9:34 [PATCH 0/8] staging: Introduce Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet driver Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 1/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add Ethernet driver overview document Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 2/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add APIs for DPNI objects Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 3/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet driver Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add ethtool support Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 5/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add driver specific stats Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 6/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add trace points Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 7/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06  9:58   ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-12-06 10:06     ` Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu
2016-12-06 10:20       ` Greg KH
2016-12-06 12:59         ` Stuart Yoder
2016-12-06 17:55           ` Greg KH
2016-12-06 18:10             ` Stuart Yoder
2017-01-03 16:47               ` Greg KH
2017-01-03 21:26                 ` Stuart Yoder
2017-01-04  9:04                   ` Greg KH
2016-12-06  9:34 ` [PATCH 8/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add maintainer for Ethernet driver Ioana Radulescu

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