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

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Sep 19 13:50:06 EDT 2012


From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:55:13 +0200

> 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

Don't submit patches like this.

When you put an RFC right in the middle of the series, it screws everything
up.

It means that I can't only apply the parts that are not RFC.



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