netdev - Re: [PATCH V7 00/19] net: ks8851: Unify KS8851 SPI and MLL drivers

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Message-Id: <20200528.163019.343545037180184967.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 16:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     marex@...x.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lukas@...ner.de, ynezz@...e.cz,
        yuehaibing@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 00/19] net: ks8851: Unify KS8851 SPI and MLL drivers

From: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 00:21:27 +0200

> The KS8851SNL/SNLI and KS8851-16MLL/MLLI/MLLU are very much the same pieces
> of silicon, except the former has an SPI interface, while the later has a
> parallel bus interface. Thus far, Linux has two separate drivers for each
> and they are diverging considerably.
> 
> This series unifies them into a single driver with small SPI and parallel
> bus specific parts. The approach here is to first separate out the SPI
> specific parts into a separate file, then add parallel bus accessors in
> another separate file and then finally remove the old parallel bus driver.
> The reason for replacing the old parallel bus driver is because the SPI
> bus driver is much higher quality.
> 
> Note that I dropped "net: ks8851: Drop define debug and pr_fmt()" for now,
> will send it separatelly later.

Series applied, thanks Marek.