# RE: \[RESEND PATCH 2/6\] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add Freescale DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver

- From: Florian Fainelli \<f.fainelli@gmail.com\>
- Date: 2017-09-29 16:11:27 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/09/5098168
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/09/5090794/t.md

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On September 29, 2017 6:59:18 AM PDT, Razvan Stefanescu [ref] wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bogdan Purcareata
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 16:36
>> To: Razvan Stefanescu <redacted>;
>> gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
>> Cc: <redacted>; <redacted>;
>> netdev@vger.kernel.org; agraf@suse.de; arnd@arndb.de; Alexandru
>Marginean
>> [ref]; Ruxandra Ioana Radulescu
>> [ref]; Laurentiu Tudor
>[ref];
>> stuyoder@gmail.com
>> Subject: RE: [RESEND PATCH 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add
>Freescale DPAA2
>> Ethernet Switch driver
>> 
>> > Introduce the DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver, which manages Datapath
>Switch
>> > (DPSW) objects discovered on the MC bus.
>> >
>> > Suggested-by: Alexandru Marginean <redacted>
>> > Signed-off-by: Razvan Stefanescu <redacted>

This looks pretty good for a new switchdev driver, is there a reason you can't target drivers/net/ethernet instead of staging? Is it because the MC bus code is still in staging (AFAICT)?

-- 
Florian
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