Le 12/09/16 à 16:16, Andy Shevchenko a écrit : > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 12:52 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It's kind of sad that customers of that IP (stmmac, amd-xgbe, sxgbe) > >> did >> actually pioneer the upstreaming effort, but it is good to see people >> from Synopsys willing to fix that in the future. > > Wait, you would like to tell that we have more than 2 drivers for the > same (okay, same vendor) IP?! > It's better to unify them earlier, than have n+ copies.
Unfortunately that is the case, see this email: https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg142796.html dwc_eth_qos and stmmac have some overlap. There seems to be work underway to unify these two to begin with. > > P.S. Though, I don't see how sxgbe got in the list. First glance on > the code doesn't show similarities. Well samsung/sxgbe looks potentially similar to amd/xgbe, but that's just my cursory look at the code, it may very well be something entirely different. The descriptor formats just look suspiciously similar. -- Florian
