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From:   Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:29:14 +0800
To:     Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
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        Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 5/6] staging: qlge: clean up debugging code in the
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:40:55PM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>On 2020-10-10 18:00 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
>[...]
>> >
>> > Please also update drivers/staging/qlge/TODO accordingly. There is still
>> > a lot of debugging code IMO (the netif_printk statements - kernel
>> > tracing can be used instead of those) but this patch is a substantial
>> > improvement.
>>
>> Thank you for the reminding! To move qlge out of staging tree would be
>> interesting exercise for me:)
>
>If you would like to work more on the driver, I would highly suggest
>getting one or two adapters to be able to test your changes. They can be
>had for relatively cheap on ebay. Just search for "qle8142".

Thank you for the info! Right now I don't have a desktop to install
this kind of adapter. I'll get one after settling the plan for a desktop.

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Best regards,
Coiby