Re: Question about patches to bnxt_en driver in buster

From	Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Question about patches to bnxt_en driver in buster
Date	2021-12-01 16:00 +0100
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Adding debian-kernel@lists.debian.org in the event that my first message
unintentionally made it to dust-bin.  :) 

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 04:09:00PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> 
> Salvatore,
> 
> Hello!  I do not think we have met before, but I'm currently working
> with Michael Chan et al at Broadcom on drivers for our network cards and
> wanted to write to ask a quick question or two regarding adding a
> feature to the Buster (4.19-based) kernel.
> 
> Broadcom submitted ~20 patches to 4.20 that added support for a new
> family of 100G adapters (Thor/575xx) to the bnx_en driver.  Along with a few
> bugfixes we expect that as many as 30 patches would need to be added to Buster
> to have full support for Thor (including bugfixes).
> 
> I noticed that there are more than this many patches to the ena driver
> already included in the buster kernel.  This makes it feel like this
> request is not out of scope for Buster.  The questions are:
> 
> 1.  Am I correct that adding new hardware support in this manner would
> not be too much for Buster?
> 
> 2.  Would you prefer if we did the backport, or would it be better if we
> provided a list of the upstream commit IDs and the kernel team would
> want to backport?  We would also want to test this, so we are happy to perform
> and test the backport.
> 
> 3.  Shall we file a bug at bugs.debian.org when are are ready or are there
> better ways to submit a feature request?
> 
> Thanks for the time.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> -andy
>

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Re: Question about patches to bnxt_en driver in buster Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com> - 2021-12-01 16:00 +0100
  Re: Question about patches to bnxt_en driver in buster Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2021-12-02 13:40 +0100
    Re: Question about patches to bnxt_en driver in buster Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com> - 2021-12-03 15:10 +0100

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