| To: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Staging: octeon-ethernet: Convert to use net_device_ops. |
| From: | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:32:57 -0700 |
| Cc: | David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| In-reply-to: | <20090623212559.GA9358@linux-mips.org> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| References: | <1245782048-24058-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> <20090623212559.GA9358@linux-mips.org> |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:34:08AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
>
> > Convert the driver to use net_device_ops as it is now mandatory.
> >
> > Also compensate for the removal of struct sk_buff's dst field.
> >
> > The changes are mostly mechanical, the content of ethernet-common.c
> > was moved to ethernet.c and ethernet-common.{c,h} are removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Although it is a staging driver, we may want to merge it via Ralf's
> > tree as Octeon is a MIPS SOC.
>
> Yes, this way it'll receive most testing.
>
> Greg, I assume you're ok with me merging this patch to Linus so I've
> commited it into the linux-mips.org repository.
No objection from me at all.
thanks,
greg k-h
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