Your patch is acceptable and OK to apply, but time has moved forward and there is a trivial rejection:
[jgarzik at sata fec]$ BK_USER=panto BK_HOST=intracom.gr bk import -tpatch -CR "-y[netdrvr] add fec_8xx driver" ~/tmp/patch . Patching... Patch failed. **** patch log follows **** Patching file drivers/net/Kconfig Patching file drivers/net/Makefile Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/Kconfig Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/Makefile Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_8xx-netta.c Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_8xx.h Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c Creating file drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c Patching file include/asm-ppc/8xx_immap.h 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/asm-ppc/8xx_immap.h.rej Please resubmit TWO emails, one with fec_8xx patch, and another with ethtool patch. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more info. Jeff ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/