Hi Andrew and Sergei, > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] Add Gigabit Ethernet driver support > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 11:53:59PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > On 7/22/21 5:13 PM, Biju Das wrote: > > > > > The DMAC and EMAC blocks of Gigabit Ethernet IP is almost similar to > Ethernet AVB. > > > > > > The Gigabit Etherner IP consists of Ethernet controller (E-MAC), > Internal TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and Dedicated Direct memory access > controller (DMAC). > > > > > > With few changes in driver, we can support Gigabit ethernet driver as > well. > > > > > > This patch series is aims to support the same > > > > > > RFC->V1 > > > * Incorporated feedback from Andrew, Sergei, Geert and Prabhakar > > > * > > > https://jpn01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpa > > > tchwork.kernel.org%2Fproject%2Flinux-renesas-soc%2Flist%2F%3Fseries% > > > 3D515525&data=04%7C01%7Cbiju.das.jz%40bp.renesas.com%7C6fe3922cc > > > 35d4178cb1d08d94d54bc75%7C53d82571da1947e49cb4625a166a4a2a%7C0%7C0%7 > > > C637625848601442706%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQ > > > IjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=bOpIqV1g > > > lMUXqz9rsX0UK3Oqap2J1cY86TGVOJvzYe4%3D&reserved=0 > > > > > > Biju Das (18): > > > dt-bindings: net: renesas,etheravb: Document Gigabit Ethernet IP > > > drivers: clk: renesas: rzg2l-cpg: Add support to handle MUX clocks > > > drivers: clk: renesas: r9a07g044-cpg: Add ethernet clock sources > > > drivers: clk: renesas: r9a07g044-cpg: Add GbEthernet clock/reset > > > > > > It's not a good idea to have the patch to the defferent subsystems > > lumped all together in a single series... > > Agreed. > > Are these changes inseparable? If so, you need to be up front on this, and > you need an agreement with the subsystem maintainers how the patches are > going to be merged? Through which tree. And you need Acked-by from the > other tree maintainers. > > Ideally you submit multiple patchsets. This assumes all sets will compile > independently. Agreed. Will split this patch series in 3 patchsets 1) single binding patch 2) Clock patchset 3) ravb driver patchset. Cheers, Biju
