Hi Biju, On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:28 AM Biju Das <biju.das.jz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. 4) dts part. Part 2 should pass through renesas-clk. Part 4 should pass through renesas-devel. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
