netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH linux-next] et131x: Promote staging et131x driver to drivers/net

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Message-ID: <1411499875.29268.7.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:17:55 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH linux-next] et131x: Promote staging et131x driver to
 drivers/net

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 21:02 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Mark Einon <mark.einon@...il.com> :
> [...]
> > > No need for the #define here, just assigne et131x_pm_ops to .driver.pm
> > > directly, its members will be NULL and thus never called. Also, you can
> > > make et131x_pm_ops const.
> > 
> > Ok, I can change this.
> > 
> > Btw, this appears to be a fairly standard way of using .driver.pm among
> > ethernet drivers, e.g. see 3com/3c59x.c, atheros, marvell... - perhaps
> > there is a case for changing all instances of this code?
> 
> How about kernel tinification ?

The tiny case where a large number of ethernet drivers are included?

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