netdev - Re: [PATCH REPOST 0/5] convert arm platforms to smsc911x

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Message-ID: <20090119092257.GB13737@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:22:57 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	"stanley.miao" <stanley.miao@...driver.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, steve.glendinning@...c.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ian.saturley@...c.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH REPOST 0/5] convert arm platforms to smsc911x

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:04:34PM +0800, stanley.miao wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 21:53 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:07:57 +0000
> > 
> > > This patchset, intended for 2.6.30, converts all in-tree arm platforms 
> > > from smc911x to the actively maintained smsc911x driver.
> > > 
> > > I don't have any of these platforms available to me, so I've only been 
> > > able to compile-test the changes.
> > > 
> > > David Miller is planning to take the smsc911x patches via net-2.6, but 
> > > I've included them here to make testing easier as the other patches in 
> > > the set depend on them.
> > > 
> > > This patchset supercedes previous irq_flags patches from me and Stanley 
> > > Miao.
> > 
> > I've applied patches 1 and 2, the smsc911x driver changes.
> > 
> > I can pull the platform changes into net-next-2.6 as well
> > if people don't think there will enough conflicts to cause
> > problems.
> 
> I think  the platform data had better stay in arm tree.

What would be the impact if patches 3 to 5 got merged before 1 and 2?
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