[PATCH v3 00/10] net/macb: driver enhancement concerning GEM support, ring logic and cleanup

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 10/30/2012 11:17 AM, 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.
> Newer pinctrl infrastructure support is added but it is optional.
> 
> The series has been tested on several Atmel AT91 SoC with the two MACB/GEM
> flavors.
> 
> v3: - rebased on net-next to take into account current effor to merge
>       at91_ether with macb drivers
>     - add additional patch to use the new pinctrl infrastructure
> v2: - modify the tx error handling: now uses a workqueue
>     - information provided by ethtool -i were not accurate: removed

David, if you feel more comfortable with a git branch (I can also 
cook a signed tag if you want), here it is:


The following changes since commit a932657f51eadb8280166e82dc7034dfbff3985a:

  net: sierra: shut up sparse restricted type warnings (2012-10-28 19:09:02 -0400)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://github.com/at91linux/linux-at91.git net-next_macb_enhancement3

for you to fetch changes up to 3269426bdd44debc00d027651f8248db9d40f3dc:

  net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support (2012-10-30 11:08:10 +0100)

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Havard Skinnemoen (4):
      net/macb: memory barriers cleanup
      net/macb: change debugging messages
      net/macb: clean up ring buffer logic
      net/macb: Offset first RX buffer by two bytes

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (1):
      net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support

Nicolas Ferre (4):
      net/macb: remove macb_get_drvinfo()
      net/macb: tx status is more than 8 bits now
      net/macb: ethtool interface: add register dump feature
      net/macb: better manage tx errors

Patrice Vilchez (1):
      net/macb: Add support for Gigabit Ethernet mode

 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 446 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h |  30 ++++--
 2 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)


Thanks, best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre