On 5/28/2025 10:14 PM, Yanteng Si wrote: > > 在 5/29/25 10:56 AM, Jitendra Vegiraju 写道: >> Hi Yanteng, >> >> On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 在 5/28/25 8:04 AM, Abhishek Chauhan (ABC) 写道: >>>> >>>> On 2/7/2025 3:18 PM, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote: >>>>> Hi Abhishek, >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM Abhishek Chauhan (ABC) < >>>>> quic_abchauha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/5/2024 8:12 AM, Jitendra Vegiraju wrote: >>>>>>> Hi netdev team, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM <jitendra.vegiraju@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>>> From: Jitendra Vegiraju <jitendra.vegiraju@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This patchset adds basic PCI ethernet device driver support for Broadcom >>>>>>>> BCM8958x Automotive Ethernet switch SoC devices. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> I would like to seek your guidance on how to take this patch series >>>>>> forward. >>>>>>> Thanks to your feedback and Serge's suggestions, we made some forward >>>>>>> progress on this patch series. >>>>>>> Please make any suggestions to enable us to upstream driver support >>>>>>> for BCM8958x. >>>>>> Jitendra, >>>>>> Have we resent this patch or got it approved ? I dont see any >>>>>> updates after this patch. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Thank you for inquiring about the status of this patch. >>>>> As stmmac driver is going through a maintainer transition, we wanted to >>>>> wait until a new maintainer is identified. >>>>> We would like to send the updated patch as soon as possible. >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Jitendra >>>> Thanks Jitendra, I am sorry but just a follow up. >>>> >>>> Do we know if stmmac maintainer are identified now ? >>> I'm curious why such a precondition is added？ >>> >> It's not a precondition. Let me give some context. >> This patch series adds support for a new Hyper DMA(HDMA) MAC from Synopsis. >> Many of the netdev community members reviewed the patches at that time. >> Being the module maintainer at that time, Serge took the initiative to >> guide us through integrating the new MAC into the stmmac driver. >> We addressed all the review comments and submitted the last patch series. >> Without an official maintainer, we didn't get feedback on the last patch series. >> Because of this, we wanted to wait until a new maintainer is assigned >> to this module. >> As Abhishek expressed in his email, it appears the HDMA MAC is >> becoming more mainstream. >> We are hoping to rebase the patch series and resubmit for review if >> netdev team members show interest. > > > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241018205332.525595-1-jitendra.vegiraju@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > In my opinion, the precondition for waiting for a maintainer is that > > the patch set has passed the review. I checked lore and did not find > > any R&B tags in the patch set, which means your patch set has not > > yet met the merging requirements. > > Therefore, I think you can continue to push forward with this patch > > set and not let it stagnate. I will take some time to review the previous > > versions (which may take a while) and hope to be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Yanteng > I will review the patch in the coming few days as well. As this patch also helps Qualcomm to develop the HDMA arch for 25XGMAC EMAC controller. This patch is validated/verfied/tested on Qualcomm platform devices which are not PCIE based. >> Thanks, >> Jitendra >>> Thanks, >>> Yanteng
