[PATCH v2 0/8] treewide: Add R-Car S4-8 Ethernet Switch support
Yoshihiro Shimoda
yoshihiro.shimoda.uh at renesas.com
Wed Sep 21 18:20:25 PDT 2022
Hi Jakub,
Thank you for your reply!
> From: Jakub Kicinski, Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 10:07 AM
>
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:46:34 +0000 Yoshihiro Shimoda wrote:
> > I thought we have 2 types about the use of the treewide:
> > 1) Completely depends on multiple subsystems and/or
> > change multiple subsystems in a patch.
> > 2) Convenient for review.
> >
> > This patch series type is the 2) above. However, should I use
> > treewide for the 1) only?
>
> I thought "treewide" means you're changing something across the tree.
> If you want to get a new platform reviewed I'd just post the patches
> as RFC without any prefix in the subject. But I could be wrong.
Using RFC is reasonable, I think. I'll use this at next time. Thanks!
> My main point (which I did a pretty poor job of actually making)
> was that for the networking driver to be merged it needs to get
> posted separately.
I'll separate patches for the networking driver on v3 patch.
Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda
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