netdev - Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Marvell Prestera Ethernet Switch driver

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Message-ID: <20201209162454.GD2602479@lunn.ch>
Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 17:24:54 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Mickey Rachamim <mickeyr@...vell.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Vadym Kochan [C]" <vkochan@...vell.com>,
        "Taras Chornyi [C]" <tchornyi@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2] MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Marvell Prestera
 Ethernet Switch driver

> You can see that only yesterday (Dec 8th) we had the first official
> merge on this repo - this is the reason for the lack of commits.
> Marvell Switching group took strategic decision to open some aspects
> of the Prestera family devices with the Open Source community and
> this is the first step.

> As you realized - it will be used as a queue for all the features
> targeted to be upstreamed.  New features are expected to be sent to
> net-next very soon. (Like ACL/LAG/LLDP etc...)

Hi Mickey

I would actually expect this repo to hold a linux tree, probably based
on net-next, and with a number of patches on top adding Prestera
features, one by one.

Given your current structure, i don't see a direct path for this code
into mainline.

	Andrew