[PATCH v3 0/5] meson: Meson8b and GXBB DWMAC glue driver

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Tue Aug 30 21:57:32 PDT 2016


From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:49:28 +0200

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:40 AM, David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:16:32 +0200
>>
>>> This adds a DWMAC glue driver for the PRG_ETHERNET registers found in
>>> Meson8b and GXBB SoCs. Based on the "old" meson6b-dwmac glue driver
>>> the register layout is completely different.
>>> Thus I introduced a separate driver.
>>>
>>> Changes since v2:
>>> - fixed unloading the glue driver when built as module. This pulls in a
>>>   patch from Joachim Eastwood (thanks) to get our private data structure
>>>   (bsp_priv).
>>
>> This doesn't apply cleanly at all to the net-next tree, so I have
>> no idea where you expect these changes to be applied.
> OK, maybe Kevin can me help out here as I think the patches should go
> to various trees.
> 
> I think patches 1, 3 and 4 should go through the net-next tree (as
> these touch drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/ and the corresponding
> documentation).
> Patch 2 should probably go through clk-meson-gxbb / clk-next (just
> like the other clk changes we had).
> The last patch (patch 5) should probably go through the ARM SoC tree
> (just like the other dts changes we had).
> 
> @David, Kevin: would this be fine for you?

I would prefer if all of the patches went through one tree, that way
all the dependencies are satisfied in one place.



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