Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754085AbdFNBKa (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:10:30 -0400 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:48600 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753382AbdFNBK3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 21:10:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 03:10:22 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Salil Mehta Cc: Florian Fainelli , "davem@davemloft.net" , "Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen)" , huangdaode , "lipeng (Y)" , "mehta.salil.lnk@gmail.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linuxarm Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/9] net: hns3: Add MDIO support to HNS3 Ethernet driver for hip08 SoC Message-ID: <20170614011022.GE23384@lunn.ch> References: <20170610034630.493852-1-salil.mehta@huawei.com> <20170610034630.493852-7-salil.mehta@huawei.com> <20170613224042.GF15847@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 499 Lines: 12 > Since I would be touching the core, lots of drivers will get impacted and will > have to wait till everyone gives clean signal. This will impact our internal > deadlines. But as I said I am eager to cooperate & contribute :) Just as an FYI. Your internal deadlines are irrelevant. We will reject your patches until we are happy with it. We probably won't accept a hack around a core feature limitation. We will want you to fix the core limitation and then do it right in the driver. Andrew