netdev - Re: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:12:02 -0400
From:	"David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@...sys.net>
To:	John Linn <John.Linn@...inx.com>
CC:	linuxppc-embedded@...abs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Stephen Neuendorffer <stephenn@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Device Driver for Xilinx LL TEMAC 10/100/1000 EthernetNIC

John Linn wrote:
>
> What about you getting all the review & testing done and then we
> (Xilinx) will add the OF support to the driver? 
>
> I doubt the powerpc mainline will take the driver without OF support. In
> fact, we had to remove the platform bus support from the last driver
> that we put into mainline for arch/powerpc.
>   

That is perfectly fine with me. i will try to pull the xilinx git tree
and see how much closer I can make the probe so that converting will be
easier.
>
>
> xilinx_lltemac is the preferred. 
>
> I don't think using xilinx_lltemac should cause problems.  Our Xilinx
> Git tree has a xilinx_lltemac subdir that contains the non-flat driver
> but that should be ok with your xilinx_lltemac.c file in the net
> directory.
>   
The next patch incarnation will have everything as xilinx_lltemac -
including the file as xilinx_lltemac.c

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