Re: [v2,net-next,1/3] net: stmmac: enable multiple buffers

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:17:36 +0100

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Yes it would be fantastic to have a set of boards, but I rarely see this in any
maintainer :).

Being a Marvell SoC and switch maintainer, i have around a dozen
boards. Some i got some simply by asking the manufacture, others i
purchased. I don't think i'm in the minority here. Without having
access to a number of different hardwares, i don't feel i would be
doing my work properly.

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I try as hard as I can to network with people and try to minimize this
situations, but when there is so many different setups using a driver with diff
configurations, situations like this can happen, but I am here to help debugging
and solving them.

You made a move to rename stmmac to synopsys not long ago. It gave the
impression that synopsis wants to take over this driver. If there are
a number of different configurations, who better than synopsys to
actually properly test these configurations? If you ask around, i'm
sure people will send you hardware.

I completely agree with everything Andrew is saying here.