netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 0/9] macb: add support for Cadence GEM

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:18:38 +0000
From:	Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>
To:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jamie@...ieiles.com,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	plagnioj@...osoft.com, Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
	Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@...site.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/9] macb: add support for Cadence GEM

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:38:18PM +0800, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> On 3/17/2011 4:17 AM, David Miller :
> > From: Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:14:47 +0000
> > 
> >> This patch series extends the Atmel MACB driver to support the Cadence
> >> GEM (Gigabit Ethernet MAC) to support 10/100 operation.  The GEM is
> >> based on the MACB block but has a few moved registers and bitfields.
> >> This patch series attempts to use the MACB accessors where block
> >> functionallity is identical and only overrides to GEM specific
> >> acccessors when needed.
> >>
> >> This has been runtested on a board with a Cadence GEM and compile tested
> >> for all at91 configurations and a number of avr32 configurations.
> >>
> >> Changes since v1:
> >> 	- AT91 now provides a fake "hclk" and "macb_clk" has been
> >> 	renamed to "pclk" to be consistent with AVR32.
> >> 	- Configurable GEM receive buffer size support has been added.
> >> 	- pr_foo() and dev_foo() have been converted to netdev_foo()
> >> 	where appropriate.
> >> 	- New conditional accessors (macb_or_gem_{read,write}l) have
> >> 	been introduced that do the conditional accesses dependent on
> >> 	macb/gem type.
> >> 	- GEM is now dynamically detected from the module ID rather than
> >> 	platform device name.
> >>
> >> Jean-Christophe, I haven't based this on your conditional clock patch as
> >> I wasn't sure what decision had been made on that and whether the
> >> at91/avr32 detection is reliable.
> > 
> > I'm happy to ACK this so you guys can merge this via one of the
> > ARM trees:
> > 
> > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> I add my:
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
> 
> Now, tell me if we need to setup a git tree with this and make it 
> handled by linux-next (we do not have for at91 yet)?
> or Russell can take the series in a "devel" branch?

Thanks for testing Nicolas!

I have an existing tree for this at

	git://github.com/jamieiles/linux-2.6-ji.git macb-gem

based off of 2.6.38 (with your ACK's now added) and I'd be happy with 
either route.

Jamie
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