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

Hi Joao

On 03/24/2017 06:09 PM, Joao Pinto wrote:

Hello David,

Às 5:05 PM de 3/24/2017, David Miller escreveu:

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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.

I'll maintain the driver if everyone agrees with it, no problem, mas I would
like to hear from Peppe and Alex, since they are the current maintainers.

I agree with this proposition. As you can see (and unfortunately) I have 
currently no time for reviewing (I'm busy on another subsystem). You are 
close to new GMAC evolution and very active (I hope for a long time).
For sure you need boards with old GMAC Ips. I will send you an STM32 
with GMAC IP 3.5. Don't hesitate to contact us if you have question 
about historic content of stmmac driver.

Thanks!

Alex

HW testing would be nice, but hard to justify investing in one shot, so it would
be great to receive hardware to make tests if the companies wish it.

About the problems in the last patch I am going to send a 2 patch set with 2
fixes, lets see if stuff gets better.

Thnaks
Joao