From: "Steven J. Hill" <steven.h...@cavium.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:30:10 -0500
> We want to add the Cavium OCTEON-III network driver. But since > interacting with the input and output queues is done via special CPU > local memory, we also need to add support to the MIPS/Octeon > architecture code. Aren't SoCs nice in this way? These are the > prerequisite patches that are needed before the network driver can be > merged. I don't know if we really want all of these MIPS specific changes to go via the net-next tree. The right way to do this is probably getting this series into the MIPS architecture tree. Then when that hits Linus's tree, and finally ends up merging into the networking tree, you can submit the networking driver.
