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Message-ID: <20121101144707.GH19021@game.jcrosoft.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 15:47:07 +0100
From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
To: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, havard@...nnemoen.net,
bhutchings@...arflare.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
patrice.vilchez@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
manabian@...il.com, David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] net/macb: driver enhancement concerning GEM
support, ring logic and cleanup
On 17:04 Wed 31 Oct , Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> This is an enhancement work that began several years ago. I try to catchup with
> some performance improvement that has been implemented then by Havard.
> The ring index logic and the TX error path modification are the biggest changes
> but some cleanup/debugging have been added along the way.
> The GEM revision will benefit from the Gigabit support.
> Newer pinctrl infrastructure support is added but it is optional.
>
> The series has been tested on several Atmel AT91 SoC with the two MACB/GEM
> flavors.
>
> v4: - remove unneeded device tree header includes
> - modified the computation of available entries in ring buffer
> v3: - rebased on net-next to take into account current effor to merge
> at91_ether with macb drivers
> - add additional patch to use the new pinctrl infrastructure
> v2: - modify the tx error handling: now uses a workqueue
> - information provided by ethtool -i were not accurate: removed
>
>
> Havard Skinnemoen (4):
> net/macb: memory barriers cleanup
> net/macb: change debugging messages
> net/macb: clean up ring buffer logic
> net/macb: Offset first RX buffer by two bytes
>
> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD (1):
> net/macb: add pinctrl consumer support
>
> Nicolas Ferre (4):
> net/macb: remove macb_get_drvinfo()
> net/macb: tx status is more than 8 bits now
> net/macb: ethtool interface: add register dump feature
> net/macb: better manage tx errors
>
> Patrice Vilchez (1):
> net/macb: Add support for Gigabit Ethernet mode
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/at91_ether.c | 6 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 448 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
> drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.h | 30 +-
> 3 files changed, 337 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Best Regards,
J.
>
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> 1.8.0
>
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