Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:58:00 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file |
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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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