netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move some Octeon support files out of staging.

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:45:17 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	ddaney.cavm@...il.com
Cc:	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Move some Octeon support files out of staging.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:29:44PM -0800, ddaney.cavm@...il.com wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> 
> First patch:
> 
> In preparation for my next set of patches to add device tree support
> for Octeon, move some files out of drivers/staging/octeon to common
> location.  There are two basic types of files I am moving:
> 
> 1) Register definition files.  Most Octeon register definition files
>    are in arch/mips/include/asm/octeon, put the rest there too.
> 
> 2) Low level packet port type probing code.  This is needed by both
>    the Ethernet driver and the code that fixes up the in-kernel device
>    trees.  Although new board pass a device tree to the kernel,
>    support of legacy boards requires that this probing code be used to
>    fix up an in-kernel device tree template.
> 
> 
> Second patch:
> 
> Update support for legacy boards.
> 
> 
> Third patch:
> 
> Seperate probing and initialization of packet ports.
> 
> 
> Since these are MIPS architecture files we could merge via Ralf's tree
> if approved.

If Ralf approves of these changes, that's fine with me and they can go
through his tree:
	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>


thanks,

greg k-h
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