Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757979AbXEIOr1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754106AbXEIOrO (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:47:14 -0400 Received: from ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.132]:39586 "EHLO ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757412AbXEIOrN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:47:13 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ In-Reply-To: <4641D920.2020508@roinet.com> References: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> <20070509092132.GB6976@xi.wantstofly.org> <200705091135.06405.marcus@better.se> <20070509110415.GA7513@xi.wantstofly.org> <4641D920.2020508@roinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <47B3C8DF-D72E-45D4-8381-D77FDCD89DB8@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcus Better Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael-Luke Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:45:53 +0100 To: David Acker X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 31 On 9 May 2007, at 15:22, David Acker wrote: > Big endian is the natural setup for the NPEs on this hardware > according to the intel documentation. Please don't stop this > driver from moving forward so that a few folks can run their > hardware in slow mode. No-one is saying that this driver should not be mainlined before it has LE support. All that I said was: > Personally I'd like LE ethernet tested and working before we push. The alternative would be to explicitly state in Kconfig that LE arm is broken with this driver, so that this could be fixed later. Please can we not blow this out of proportion, it really isn't that big a deal. The irony is that fixing Krzysztof's driver to work on LE will probably be quite easy, given that we already have a working LE driver from Christian. Michael-Luke PS: It really isn't just 'a few folks' - at NSLU2-Linux we have 5000 people who have downloaded Debian/LE for NSLU2 and are currently using Christian's driver with great success. We would just like to replicate that support with this new driver. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/