Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752815AbdFQLKt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:10:49 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.187]:8308 "EHLO szxga01-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752727AbdFQLKr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:10:47 -0400 From: Salil Mehta To: Andrew Lunn 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 Thread-Topic: [PATCH net-next 6/9] net: hns3: Add MDIO support to HNS3 Ethernet driver for hip08 SoC Thread-Index: AQHS4ZxgU7WX1+yFm0OA+cc1rCELGqIeU/MAgAS6e/CAADj/AIAAJYNggAAETgCABX7TsA== Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 11:10:32 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20170610034630.493852-1-salil.mehta@huawei.com> <20170610034630.493852-7-salil.mehta@huawei.com> <20170613224042.GF15847@lunn.ch> <20170614011022.GE23384@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20170614011022.GE23384@lunn.ch> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.203.181.160] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A090202.59450E33.003E,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=169.254.2.25, so=2014-11-16 11:51:01, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 8906d6c919d986b79f07e113d02aa4f6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1273 Lines: 39 Hi Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch] > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 2:10 AM > 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 > > > 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 We are dropping the support of C45 in our driver till we fix the issue just commented upon. I will try to fix this issue and would soon float a separate patch for that. Later, we shall re-introduce the support of C45 in our HNS3 driver once the PHY core fix has been reviewed and accepted. Thanks Salil