netdev - Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver

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Message-ID: <CAHp75Vf2ZncJcGguueh2fCsHaZVin8qGSk+hDUt+uRg8ffgZbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 22:15:55 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
Cc:     Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Rayagond Kokatanur <rayagond@...avyalabs.com>,
        Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>, mued dib <kreptor@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, jiri@...lanox.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        CARLOS.PALMINHA@...opsys.com, andreas.irestal@...s.com,
        lars.persson@...s.com, Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS Driver

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO
<peppe.cavallaro@...com> wrote:

First of all, +1 to (re-)use stmmac.

> The stmmac drivers run since many years on several platforms
> (sh4, stm32, arm, x86, mips ...) and it supports an huge of amount of
> configurations starting from 3.1x to 3.7x databooks.

As Intel employee who did some clean ups to that, acknowledge above.

> Concerning the stmicro/stmmac naming, these come from a really old
> story and have no issue to adopt new folder/file names.

I don't think it would be best idea for platform driver (though we can
keep driver's name in the structure in async with file name).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko