Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 0/8] net: qualcomm: add QCA7000 UART driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 13 2016 - 04:16:21 EST


On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 10:09:09AM +0200, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>
> > Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> hat am 26. September 2016 um 13:07
> > geschrieben:
> >
> >
> > The Qualcomm QCA7000 HomePlug GreenPHY supports two interfaces:
> > UART and SPI. This patch series adds the missing support for UART.
> >
> > This driver based on the Qualcomm code [1], but contains some changes:
> > * use random MAC address per default
> > * use net_device_stats from device
> > * share frame decoding between SPI and UART driver
> > * improve error handling
> > * reimplement tty_wakeup with work queue (based on slcan)
> >
> > The patches 1 - 3 are just for clean up and are not related to
> > the UART support. Patches 4 - 7 prepare the existing QCA7000
> > code for UART support. The last patch contains the new driver.
> >
> > In order to test the driver a modified slattach in userspace is also
> > required. A prepared busybox (includes slattach) can be found here [2].
> >
> > The code itself has been tested on a Freescale i.MX28 board.
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > * fix build issue by using netif_trans_update() and dev_trans_start()
> >
> > [1] - https://github.com/IoE/qca7000
> > [2] - https://github.com/lategoodbye/busybox/commits/qca7k_support_1_24
> >
>
> Gently ping, since i didn't receive any comment for this version.

It's the middle of the merge window, I can't add any new patches right
now. Please wait until after 4.9-rc1 is out.

thanks,

greg k-h