From: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:17:36 +0100
>> Yes it would be fantastic to have a set of boards, but I rarely see this in >> any >> maintainer :). > > Being a Marvell SoC and switch maintainer, i have around a dozen > boards. Some i got some simply by asking the manufacture, others i > purchased. I don't think i'm in the minority here. Without having > access to a number of different hardwares, i don't feel i would be > doing my work properly. > >> I try as hard as I can to network with people and try to minimize this >> situations, but when there is so many different setups using a driver with >> diff >> configurations, situations like this can happen, but I am here to help >> debugging >> and solving them. > > You made a move to rename stmmac to synopsys not long ago. It gave the > impression that synopsis wants to take over this driver. If there are > a number of different configurations, who better than synopsys to > actually properly test these configurations? If you ask around, i'm > sure people will send you hardware. I completely agree with everything Andrew is saying here.
