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

[Florian Fainelli]

On September 29, 2017 6:59:18 AM PDT, Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Subject: RE: [RESEND PATCH 2/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add
>Freescale DPAA2
>> Ethernet Switch driver
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>> > Introduce the DPAA2 Ethernet Switch driver, which manages Datapath
>Switch
>> > (DPSW) objects discovered on the MC bus.
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>> > Suggested-by: Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@xxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@xxxxxxx>

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)?

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Florian