netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ftgmac100: Mostly rewrite the driver

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Message-ID: <1490834778.3177.197.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:46:18 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ftgmac100: Mostly rewrite the driver

On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 08:08 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 11:08 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > I hear your point that you are the only users of the driver and
> > it's
> > already in a bad shape, but take this as an opportunity to increase
> > your commit count ;)
> 
> Haha, my commit count is fine thanks ;-)
> 
> I'll see what I can do. I need to respin anyway, I haven't tested
> the netpoll support and it doesn't build (ugh). So I'll try to break
> it down. Maybe not 200 patches but I'll see if I can make it more
> palatable.

FYI, Dave, Florian

I've started re-doing the work in the form of a series of patches.

I can't promise I'll manage to make them all really small but I'll
do my best. So hold onto reviewing if you haven't started already.

The end result will, I hope, be identical.

Cheers,
Ben.