From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: marex@denx.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lukas@wunner.de, ynezz@true.cz,
yuehaibing@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 00/19] net: ks8851: Unify KS8851 SPI and MLL drivers
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:30:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200528.163019.343545037180184967.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528222146.348805-1-marex@denx.de>
From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 00:21:27 +0200
> The KS8851SNL/SNLI and KS8851-16MLL/MLLI/MLLU are very much the same pieces
> of silicon, except the former has an SPI interface, while the later has a
> parallel bus interface. Thus far, Linux has two separate drivers for each
> and they are diverging considerably.
>
> This series unifies them into a single driver with small SPI and parallel
> bus specific parts. The approach here is to first separate out the SPI
> specific parts into a separate file, then add parallel bus accessors in
> another separate file and then finally remove the old parallel bus driver.
> The reason for replacing the old parallel bus driver is because the SPI
> bus driver is much higher quality.
>
> Note that I dropped "net: ks8851: Drop define debug and pr_fmt()" for now,
> will send it separatelly later.
Series applied, thanks Marek.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-28 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-28 22:21 [PATCH V7 00/19] net: ks8851: Unify KS8851 SPI and MLL drivers Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 01/19] net: ks8851: Factor out spi->dev in probe()/remove() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 02/19] net: ks8851: Rename ndev to netdev in probe Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 03/19] net: ks8851: Replace dev_err() with netdev_err() in IRQ handler Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 04/19] net: ks8851: Pass device node into ks8851_init_mac() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 05/19] net: ks8851: Use devm_alloc_etherdev() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 06/19] net: ks8851: Use dev_{get,set}_drvdata() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 07/19] net: ks8851: Remove ks8851_rdreg32() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 08/19] net: ks8851: Use 16-bit writes to program MAC address Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 09/19] net: ks8851: Use 16-bit read of RXFC register Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 10/19] net: ks8851: Factor out bus lock handling Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 11/19] net: ks8851: Factor out SKB receive function Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 12/19] net: ks8851: Split out SPI specific entries in struct ks8851_net Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 13/19] net: ks8851: Split out SPI specific code from probe() and remove() Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 14/19] net: ks8851: Factor out TX work flush function Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 15/19] net: ks8851: Permit overridding interrupt enable register Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 16/19] net: ks8851: Implement register, FIFO, lock accessor callbacks Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 17/19] net: ks8851: Separate SPI operations into separate file Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 18/19] net: ks8851: Implement Parallel bus operations Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 22:21 ` [PATCH V7 19/19] net: ks8851: Remove ks8851_mll.c Marek Vasut
2020-05-28 22:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-05-28 23:30 ` David Miller [this message]
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