On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 07:43:54PM +0530, Ganesan Ramalignam wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:58:51PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:59:18AM +0530, ganesanr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > This patch has to be merged via staging tree. > > > > > > This driver has been submitted to netdev tree and reviewed, the comments > > > are list in TODO list, will be addressed in next cycle of submission, till > > > that time I wanted this driver to be in staging tree. > > > > > > This driver shall be sent to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > for further review. > > > > When is that going to happen? > > > > In two months. Why then? What is so magic about 2 months? In two months, this driver is not going to be in a released version of the kernel yet. > > > --- /dev/null > > > +++ b/drivers/staging/netlogic/Kconfig > > > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ > > > +config NETLOGIC_XLR_NET > > > + tristate "Netlogic XLR/XLS network device" > > > + depends on CPU_XLR > > > > Why will this not build on any other platform? It should, right? > > > > > > This driver is for XLR processor ethernet, which is depend on FMN > for any communication between packet processing agents, so this driver > depend on XLR platform. What is "FMN"? thanks, greg k-h
