Re: [PATCH 3/4] [PPC32] ibm_emac: Add 440SPe support

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:25:26PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

    Eugene> Well, new driver was sent to jgarzik and netdev list three
    Eugene> weeks ago. So far I haven't heard anything technical from
    Eugene> Jeff. I don't know when and even if it will be merged.

Assuming everyone in the PPC4xx world thinks your driver should
replace the old driver, it might be worth sending directly to Andrew.
There's no reason Jeff has to become a bottleneck for this.

We're working on this. It's not exactly that simple since Jeff
established that all net drivers must enter through the netdev
tree. I expect it can get merged post 2.6.14 if all goes well.

-Matt

    Matt> We're working on this. It's not exactly that simple since
    Matt> Jeff established that all net drivers must enter through the
    Matt> netdev tree. I expect it can get merged post 2.6.14 if all
    Matt> goes well.

Jeff may want all net drivers to go through his tree, but with all due
respect to him, there's no law that says it has to be so.

cf. Linus's recent post: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/22/220

 - R.