On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:38:52PM +0000, Mickey Rachamim wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > > You can see that only yesterday (Dec 8th) we had the first official
> > > merge on this repo - this is the reason for the lack of commits.
> > > Marvell Switching group took strategic decision to open some aspects
> > > of the Prestera family devices with the Open Source community and this
> > > is the first step.
> >
> > > As you realized - it will be used as a queue for all the features
> > > targeted to be upstreamed. New features are expected to be sent to
> > > net-next very soon. (Like ACL/LAG/LLDP etc...)
> >
> > Hi Mickey
> >
> > I would actually expect this repo to hold a linux tree, probably based on
> > net-next, and with a number of patches on top adding Prestera features, one
> > by one.
Hi Mickey
Please get your mailer fixed. It seems to be re-wrapping other peoples
text, which is bad.
> A Buildroot based repo that includes specific platform patches will became
> public in the upcoming days. (As part of Marvell-Switching GitHub)
And please wrap your own text at around 65 characters. Standard
Netique RFC 1855 stuff.
> >
> > Given your current structure, i don't see a direct path for this code into
> > mainline.
> >
>
> Assuming the discussion is still on the 'W:' line;
Nope. I'm still talking about this repo of driver code. It is one
commit. Meaning you cannot do
git-format patch
git send-email --to=jakub --to=davem --cc=netdev *.patch
So you are basically going to have to re-write the code into a set of
patches. Which makes this repo pointless, in terms of kernel
development work. And that is what MAINTAINERS is all about.
Andrew
