netdev - Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS

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Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:13:57 +0800
From:   Jie Deng <Jie.Deng1@...opsys.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Joao Pinto <Joao.Pinto@...opsys.com>,
        Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        <lars.persson@...s.com>, <rabin.vincent@...s.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <CARLOS.PALMINHA@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: Synopsys Ethernet QoS



On 2016/12/10 8:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> It's kind of sad that customers of that IP (stmmac, amd-xgbe, sxgbe)
>> did
>> actually pioneer the upstreaming effort, but it is good to see people
>> from Synopsys willing to fix that in the future.
> Wait, you would like to tell that we have more than 2 drivers for the
> same (okay, same vendor) IP?!
> It's better to unify them earlier, than have n+ copies.
>
> P.S. Though, I don't see how sxgbe got in the list. First glance on
> the code doesn't show similarities.
Glance on sxgbe_reg.h the register seems from Synopsys XGMAC IP... Probably,
amd-xgbe and sxgbe targeted the same IP