On 01/12/2017 04:54 PM, Joao Pinto wrote: > Às 3:48 PM de 1/12/2017, David Miller escreveu: >> From: Joao Pinto <joao.pi...@synopsys.com> >> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:46:31 +0000 >> >>> Hope we can meet in a LinuxCon soon and have a talk, for you to know >>> me and this way you will see that I am a guy that is only focused in >>> producing work the best way possible, and nothing else. >> I do not argue your intentions. >> >> I argue the side effects of your change for the ecosystem of >> long term maintaince and backporting, and what tangible benefit >> this change brings to users. >> > The driver synopsys/dwc_eth_qos is no longer necessary since it was ported to > stmmac. The merged followed all the requirements given by AXIS coleagues > Niklas > and Lars. The new stmmac solution was tested by them. In my opinion of course > there is no reason to synopsys/dwc_eth_qos to exist anymore. I am deleting > now a > synopsys/ name folder :) I did this work to improve organization and > centralize > dwc ethernet in stmmac.
Hello Joao, David. Regardless of the outcome of the "to rename or not to rename" discussion, I think that merging this patch would be a good thing. Joao's dwc_eth_qos glue layer has been merged to stmmac, so it should now be safe to remove the dwc_eth_qos driver. It's much better if everyone is focusing on a single driver. > > I know that changing what is working properly is a risk, I totally understand, > and if I was a top maintainer I would have the same concern of course. But in > this case I think it is good to organize the house. My intentions are to stick > around and help developing Ethernet, like I am helping developing PCI host/. > > Thanks, > Joao
