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Message-ID: <20131220034004.GA8160@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:40:04 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Ravi Patel <rapatel@....com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	jcm@...hat.com, patches@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue
 Manager/Traffic Manager


A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0800, Ravi Patel wrote:
> APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet driver is planned to be submitted on Dec 20 2013.
> Ethernet driver will be using these exported API's from QMTM driver.

Please submit a user of the api as part of the series, otherwise we
can't evaluate if it's really the correct thing to do or not.

> The APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet driver is going to live in drivers/net/ethernet/apm
> /xgene.

So this is a "bus"?  How is the ethernet device going to show up in
sysfs as a parent of what as this isn't part of the driver model?

greg k-h
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