On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 03:57:45PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * David Miller <[email protected]> [090202 13:45]:
> > From: Russell King - ARM Linux <[email protected]>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:39:53 +0000
> > 
> > > The patch to fix these issues would seem to be relatively small (12
> > > lines in the smc911x and one line change in board-ldp.c) - is it
> > > something we want done for -rc4 or do we scrap the ethernet support 
> > > on the LDP until the SMSC driver has been merged ?
> 
> Would be nice to have it of course!
> 
> > > Obviously, having working ethernet would be helpful, and since it was
> > > half heartedly merged when the initial OMAP3 stuff went upstream we
> > > should do something with it one way or another.
> > 
> > Well, the SMSC driver is there already in the tree.
> > 
> > The only thing not currently being scheduled to hit
> > 2.6.29-rcX are the recent changes to support platform
> > specified interrupt flags and all of that stuff.
> > 
> > If you want, we can look into pushing that work into
> > 2.6.29-rcX
> 
> That would be great, more platforms to test it on.

Mainline during the -rc series is not for pushing stuff to get additional
testing.  It's for resolving regressions and fixing bugs, not introducing
changes which could cause regressions and bugs.
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