Nick Thompson wrote:
> Ben Warren wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Tom <tom....@windriver.com
>> <mailto:tom....@windriver.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thompson, Nick (GE EntSol, Intelligent Platforms) wrote:
>>
>>         Add a driver for the DA830 EMAC.
>>
>>         This is very similar to the davinci_emac driver. It has been
>>         restructured
>>         to make it as similar as possible. Potentially the two could be
>>         merged,
>>         but I don't have access to other davinci type platforms to test for
>>         breakage after the inevitable mangling required.
>>
>>         Signed-off-by: Nick Thompson <nick.thomp...@gefanuc.com
>>         <mailto:nick.thomp...@gefanuc.com>>
>>
>>
>>     Ben,
>>     Can I pass this review off to you ?
>>     Tom
>>
>>
>>  
>> Yeah, I'll review the next spin.  Since it won't require a new driver,
>> it may make more sense to keep the patch parts together.  Either way,
>> I'll ACK/NAK it.
>>
>> regards,
>> Ben 
> 
> Tom, Thank you for the very through review, I will go away and address the 
> issues you raise and get some checking tools in place. Also I've figured out 
> how to get Thunderbird on linux talking to my exchange server - I will test 
> it's mangling abilities before my next patch.
> 
> Ben, You are right of course, I picked up the driver from an old TI u-boot 
> and updated it for CONFIG_NET_MULTI, but shyed away from making functional 
> changes as it seems to work just fine. I will switch to the davinci driver 
> and pull in changes only as required - with inline statics where I can.
> 
> If I understood correctly, assuming the switch to davinci ethernet, you would 
> prefer a single patch e-mail rather than 5? It will still be rather bigger 
> than the 40kB suggested in the linux SubmittingPatches doc.

The way you did it with 5 is preferred.
The 4/5 is a NET patch and that must be reviewed by Ben.
The others are TI/ARM patches.

Tom

> 
> Thanks,
> Nick.
> 
> This next line is just a test please ignore:
> +static unsigned char         emac_rx_buffers[EMAC_MAX_RX_BUFFERS * 
> (EMAC_MAX_ETHERNET_PKT_SIZE + EMAC_PKT_ALIGN)];

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