netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/12] at91

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:40:00 +0200
From:	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	nicolas.ferre@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] at91_ether cleanup

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:01:05 +0200
>
>> This patch series prepares the old at91_ether driver for code
>> sharing with the macb driver. The hardware is similar except for DMA
>> TX/RX, so its not quite clear if it is practical to support both in
>> one driver. But stuff like MDIO and statistics should be possible to
>> share.
>
> All applied, thanks.
>
> Can you get rid of that HAVE_NET_MACB thing?  It's completely
> pointless.  This is a platform driver for crying out loud,
> therefore it can successfully build on any architecture.  And
> we want this exposed for build testing as far as we can.

I'll post a patch series soon which will make all cadence Ethernet
drivers buildable on any architecture.
For macb it will remove the pointless HAVE_NET_MACB and for at91_ether
it will remove the mach include by shuffling some quirk code in a
machine board setup.

regards
Joachim Eastwood
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