Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2014 03:23:27 +0000
From:	"fugang.duan@...escale.com" <fugang.duan@...escale.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH CFT 00/30] Initial round of Freescale FEC ethernet patches

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> Data: Friday, June 27, 2014 11:16 PM
>To: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org
>Cc: Duan Fugang-B38611
>Subject: [PATCH CFT 00/30] Initial round of Freescale FEC ethernet patches
>
>This is v2 of my initial round of patches (roughly half of my total patch
>set) for the Freescale FEC driver.
>
>I'm sending this set out for comments and testing.  So far, I have had
>only one ack for one patch in this series, this is pretty poor, so I'm now
>sending it with a CFT tag instead.
>
>I haven't changed too much - I've fixed the bug which Andy spotted in the
>transmit handling, but otherwise the patches are much the same.
>
>The remainder of the text is as per my previous message, but with updated
>diffstat:
>
>One of my motivations for only sending half is to get this half into a
>state where DaveM is happy to merge it before I sort out the remainder.
>There's quite a lot here, so bear with me on this.
>
>I've tried to sort the fixes before the cleanups as best I can, but
>reordering the series is a full-time job due to it's size - it's taken
>from Monday until now to get this far with it, so I'm hoping that there
>won't be any "you should rearrange the patches as X" comments.
>
>While the original series was well tested during it's original development,
>including with performance tests on each patch, that testing and
>validation has been lost due to the changes during the last merge window,
>and subsequent rebasing and updating of the patches.
>
>The series is based on v3.16-rc1, and as such, I have added Andy's
>checksum fix to the start of the series.  This patch is not strictly part
>of the RFC, but is included because my complete patch series needs to
>account for that change.
>
>Some of these patches are to fix theoretical problems in the driver (ones
>which have been found via a review of the code) others address real
>observable problems (such as poor half-duplex performance.)
>
>Towards the end of this series, I have included a patch which was
>initially at the beginning of the series for dumping out the state of the
>transmit ring, which is very useful to debug transmit problems.
>This was acceptable when the transmit ring was between 16 and 128
>descriptors, but during the recent merge window, this was increased to
>512 descriptors, so it will now print around 512 lines to the kernel
>message log on transmit timeout.  I'm not entirely convinced this is a
>good idea - maybe it should become optional, or maybe the timed-out ring
>status should be available via debugfs, but that's a problem to retrieve
>if you're running NFS rootfs and the timeout doesn't recover properly.
>
>This series of patches is also available from the following *unstable* git
>branch - unstable as it's provided for convenience so you don't have to
>apply all these patches individually, unstable as the patches need to have
>attributations added, unstable because DaveM will probably want to apply
>them as patches to his tree:
>
>  git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git fec-testing
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h      |  10 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 382 +++++++++++++++++--------
>-----
> 2 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
>

Hi, Russell,

The V2 patch set are fine for me. Thanks for your clean for the driver.

Acked-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@...escale.com>

Thanks,
Andy
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