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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:34:41AM -0600, Ioana Radulescu wrote:
> Add a list of TODO items for the Ethernet driver
>
> Signed-off-by: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO | 9 +++++++++
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..833265b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/TODO
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +* Add a DPAA2 MAC kernel driver in order to allow PHY management; currently
> + the DPMAC objects and their link to DPNIs are handled by MC internally
> + and all PHYs are seen as fixed-link
> +* add more debug support: decide how to expose detailed debug statistics,
> + add ingress error queue support
> +* MC firmware uprev; the DPAA2 objects used by the Ethernet driver need to
> + be kept in sync with binary interface changes in MC
> +* refine README file
> +* cleanup

These seem like very minor things, why not just spend a week and do this
work and get it merged to the "correct" portion of the kernel tree? Why
does this have to go into staging?

thanks,

greg k-h

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