Re: [PATCH 00/13] staging: add drivers to support Mediatek mt7621 in gnubee-pc1

From: NeilBrown
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 19:45:14 EST


On Thu, Mar 15 2018, NeilBrown wrote:

> Hi Greg,
> I'd like to submit the following drivers to staging. They
> are all for components of the mt7621 MIPS-based SOC from Mediatek.
> I lifted them out of libreCMC and (for the ethernet code) out
> of email posts from about 2 years ago. I forward-ported
> them to mainline, fixed enough bugs that they mostly work,
> and moved them to staging.
>
> With these patches the GNUBEE is almost usable. It needs
> one patch to arch/mips/kernel/setup.c because mips_cm_probe()
> is being called too early. To successfully reboot (i.e warm-restart)
> it needs a small patch to drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c.
>
> I've made a point of only included code that I can actually test
> on hardware that I have. That has meant selecting only a few patches
> from a series and in a couple of cases, discarding some files from a
> patch. I haven't discard code from within a file that I need part
> of.
>
> All the driver patches had a From: of John Crispin so he is cc:ed -
> thanks John!!

Unfortunately the email address I had for John bounces. So if anyone
replies for any reason, you might like to delete his address from the
Cc.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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