On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 7:07 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 2:37 PM Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Didn't receive any feedback for the v3 patch series over a week's time. > > Can you please pick up these patches to merge into arm-soc ? > > I would still prefer to see the whole thing as part of drivers/net/ > instead of drivers/soc, > and reviewed in full on the netdev side, including the parts that are > not ethernet specific. > > Arnd Hmm.. I agree that there are many networking terms used in the driver but it's not a networking driver, it's just a HW configuration driver which includes how HW should parse the packet. This driver doesn't fit into drivers/net. Let's say if netdev driver in drivers/net/ethernet doesn't make use of crypto feature then i guess netdev maintainers would reject any patches which configure crypto block. Also as i have been saying there are other scenarios as well. Future silicons may add support for other features into this resource virtualization unit's domain. An example would be compression. Any patches which do compression related HW configuration might be rejected by netdev maintainers, cause they are no way related to networking. I will keep netdev mailing list in all the patch submissions but moving this driver into drivers/net doesn't sound right, from it's functionality perspective. Thanks, Sunil.
