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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 22:29:09 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: tony@...mide.com, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Remaining bits for basic support of LDP
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:45:30PM -0800, David Miller 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
Hmm. Since we should assume that the other smc911x using platforms work
as-is, merging Steve's first four and the LDP patch seems to be a sane
idea. We can queue the remainder for when bugs are reported or the
next merge window, whichever comes earlier.
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