Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753268AbcLFKJz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:09:55 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42246 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752094AbcLFKIE (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2016 05:08:04 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:58:00 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Ioana Radulescu Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agraf@suse.de, arnd@arndb.de, alexandru.marginean@nxp.com, bogdan.hamciuc@nxp.com, stuart.yoder@nxp.com, roy.pledge@nxp.com, laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Add TODO file Message-ID: <20161206095800.GA4247@kroah.com> References: <20161206093442.11362-1-ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com> <20161206093442.11362-8-ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161206093442.11362-8-ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 32 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 > --- > 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