netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2 v10] net: ethernet: Add a driver for Gemini gigabit ethernet

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Message-Id: <20180110.154113.1759667248487481665.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:41:13 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linus.walleij@...aro.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl,
        janos.dev@...il.com, paulius.zaleckas@...il.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, ulli.kroll@...glemail.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, tobias.waldvogel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2 v10] net: ethernet: Add a driver for
 Gemini gigabit ethernet

From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Date: Tue,  9 Jan 2018 23:10:53 +0100

> The Gemini ethernet has been around for years as an out-of-tree
> patch used with the NAS boxen and routers built on StorLink
> SL3512 and SL3516, later Storm Semiconductor, later Cortina
> Systems. These ASICs are still being deployed and brand new
> off-the-shelf systems using it can easily be acquired.
> 
> The full name of the IP block is "Net Engine and Gigabit
> Ethernet MAC" commonly just called "GMAC".
> 
> The hardware block contains a common TCP Offload Enginer (TOE)
> that can be used by both MACs. The current driver does not use
> it.
> 
> Cc: Tobias Waldvogel <tobias.waldvogel@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Micha┅ Miros┅aw <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Applied.