Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

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To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, <netdev@...>, lkml <linux-kernel@...>, Russell King <rmk@...>, ARM Linux Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...>
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - 3:22 am

On 8 May 2007, at 02:19, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:


A final submission should probably have this platform data separated  
from the net driver and sent upstream via Russell's patch tracking  
system rather than netdev.


This has gone from error to warning - fair play but if are planning  
to put this upstream this cycle (anything's possible :) ) you'll want  
to declare this driver broken on ARMEB in Kconfig please.

Personally I'd like LE ethernet tested and working before we push.


Two returns? Defines make sense in-file here :)


Hallo :o)


I think my comment about adding randomised MAC addresses in case of  
no hwaddr stands - it's really not that complex.

Christian's driver did this:

	/* The place of the MAC address is very system dependent.
	 * Here we use a random one to be replaced by one of the
	 * following commands:
	 * "ip link set address 02:03:04:04:04:01 dev eth0"
	 * "ifconfig eth0 hw ether 02:03:04:04:04:07"
	*/

	if (is_zero_ether_addr(plat->hwaddr)) {
		random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
		dev->dev_addr[5] = plat->phy_id;
	}
	else
		memcpy(dev->dev_addr, plat->hwaddr, 6);


For our flash and eeprom notifiers to work, we need this converted to  
a late_initcall:
http://trac.nslu2-linux.org/kernel/browser/trunk/patches/2.6.21/37- 
ixp4xx-net-driver-fix-mac-handling.patch

akpm suggested this fix, but we don't absolutely know if it's  
upstream acceptable.


Personally I'm less fussed about WAN / LE support. Anyone with any  
sense will run ixp4xx boards doing such a specialised network  
operation as BE. Also, NSLU2-Linux can't test this functionality with  
our LE setup as we don't have this hardware on-board. You may just  
want to declare a depends on ARMEB in Kconfig (with or without OR  
(ARM || BROKEN) ) and have done with it - it's up to you.


Greater-than-one-line comments not conforming to Kernel coding style  
- someone much more angry than me will jump on that.


Lots of double returns.


[snip]

Again, looking good.

Michael-Luke Jones

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[PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 7:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 9:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Leon Woestenberg, (Mon May 7, 4:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:21 pm)
[PATCH 2a/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 6:27 am)
[PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 8:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:40 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Michael-Luke Jones, (Mon May 7, 8:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 1:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Michael-Luke Jones, (Mon May 7, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 3:57 pm)
[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 9:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 10:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and ..., Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:22 am)
[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:32 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 10:12 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 10:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 12:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Wed May 9, 6:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Thu May 10, 10:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Alexey Zaytsev, (Tue May 8, 8:47 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 8:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:05 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:57 am)
[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Michael-Luke Jones, (Tue May 8, 3:02 am)
Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - NPE, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:56 am)
[PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 8:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Christian Hohnstaedt, (Mon May 7, 1:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 4:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Lennert Buytenhek, (Tue May 8, 7:48 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] Intel IXP4xx network drivers, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue May 8, 9:47 am)
[PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun May 6, 8:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Alexey Zaytsev, (Mon May 7, 1:24 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: include IXP4xx "fuses" support, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 6:24 am)
[PATCH] Use menuconfig objects II - netdev/wan, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon May 7, 5:02 pm)