From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Sandro Volery" <sandro@volery.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
"Wambui Karuga" <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>,
"Julia Lawall" <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
"Florian Westphal" <fw@strlen.de>,
"Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
"Branden Bonaby" <brandonbonaby94@gmail.com>,
"Petr Štetiar" <ynezz@true.cz>,
"Paul Burton" <paulburton@kernel.org>,
"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
"Giovanni Gherdovich" <bobdc9664@seznam.cz>,
"Valery Ivanov" <ivalery111@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:15:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210201515.GA16912@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191210194659.GC18225@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi>
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 01:01:20PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:40:54PM +0100, Sandro Volery wrote:
> > > Doesn't octeon have drivers out of staging already?
> > > What is this module for?
> >
> > I have no idea :(
>
> It's stated in the TODO file you are deleting (visible in your
> patch): "This driver is functional and supports Ethernet on
> OCTEON+/OCTEON2/OCTEON3 chips at least up to CN7030."
>
> This includes e.g. some D-Link routers and Uniquiti EdgeRouters. You
> can check from /proc/cpuinfo if you are running on this MIPS SoC.
>
It also results in "mips:allmodconfig" build failures in mainline
and is for that reason being marked as BROKEN. Unfortunately,
misguided attempts to clean it up had the opposite effect.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 9:15 [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host controller driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 19:31 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 21:27 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-11 7:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-04 4:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:15 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 7:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-12-10 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Guenter Roeck
2020-02-04 4:02 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:09 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 20:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 20:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-04 22:53 ` gregkh
2020-02-05 3:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-05 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-05 3:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-05 13:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-06 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-12-10 11:40 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 12:54 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 19:46 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:15 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2019-12-10 21:48 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 22:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-11 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter
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