netdev - Re: Remaining bits for basic support of LDP

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Date:	Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:16:54 -0800
From:	Steve Sakoman <sakoman@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-omap <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remaining bits for basic support of LDP

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:39:53 +0000
>
>> The patch to fix these issues would seem to be relatively small (12
>> lines in the smc911x and one line change in board-ldp.c) - is it
>> something we want done for -rc4 or do we scrap the ethernet support
>> on the LDP until the SMSC driver has been merged ?
>>
>> Obviously, having working ethernet would be helpful, and since it was
>> half heartedly merged when the initial OMAP3 stuff went upstream we
>> should do something with it one way or another.
>
> Well, the SMSC driver is there already in the tree.
>
> The only thing not currently being scheduled to hit
> 2.6.29-rcX are the recent changes to support platform
> specified interrupt flags and all of that stuff.
>
> If you want, we can look into pushing that work into
> 2.6.29-rcX

That would be great!  The patch I recently submitted for Overo's SMSC
support really does need the platform specified interrupt flag patch
to function properly.  So accelerating those patches into 2.6.29-rcX
gets my vote :-)

Steve
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