[PATCH v2 0/9] net/macb: driver enhancement concerning GEM support, ring logic and cleanup

[David Miller]

From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:25:08 +0200

> David,
> 
> On 09/19/2012 01:55 PM, Nicolas Ferre :
>> This is an enhancement work that began several years ago. I try to catchup with
>> some performance improvement that has been implemented then by Havard.
>> The ring index logic and the TX error path modification are the biggest changes
>> but some cleanup/debugging have been added along the way.
>> The GEM revision will benefit from the Gigabit support.
>> 
>> The series has been tested on several Atmel AT91 SoC with the two MACB/GEM
>> flavors.
>> 
>> v2: - modify the tx error handling: now uses a workqueue
>>     - information provided by ethtool -i were not accurate: removed
> 
> I am about to re-send this patch series. Should I rebase it on top of
> Joachim's recent modifications? I mean, I plan to rebase them on top of
> net-next, is it the proper thing to do?

You should always base your patch on whatever tree you want your patches
applied to.

If you have a dependency on something not in that tree (for example, you
need something in the 'net' tree) you have to tell me.