RE: [patch net-next]alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161Ethernet driver

[Ren, Cloud]

>From: <cloud.ren@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:46:24 +0800
>
>> +#define __far
>
>So much unused crap left in these header files, get rid of this stuff.
>
>+#define ALX_HW_WARN(_fmt, _args...) \
>+		ALX_HW_PRINTA(WARNING, _fmt, ## _args)
>+
>+#define ALX_HW_INFO(_fmt, _args...) \
>+		ALX_HW_PRINTA(INFO, _fmt, ## _args)
>+
>+#define ALX_HW_DBG(_fmt, _args...) \
>+		ALX_HW_PRINTA(DEBUG, _fmt, ## _args)
>+
>
>We told you to get rid of your customized debug logging interfaces, yet all of
>this stuff is still there.
>
>+/* delay function */
>+#define US_DELAY(_hw, _n)	__US_DELAY(_n)
>+#define MS_DELAY(_hw, _n)	__MS_DELAY(_n)
>+#define __US_DELAY(_n)		udelay(_n)
>+#define __MS_DELAY(_n)		mdelay(_n)
>
>Useless wrappers for standard kernel interfaces, kill this.
>
>+#define DEBUG_INFO(_a, _b)
>+#define DEBUG_INFOS(_a, _b)
>
>Again we told you to get rid of this stuff.
>
>I suspect it's going to take may rounds of feedback before this driver is
>anywhere near ready for inclusion.
>
>Please just submit it to staging and let it cook there for a couple weeks in the
>interests of our sanity.

As you saw, should I do the two following steps?
1. I firstly try to submit code to linux-staging.git. 
2. After the driver have been accepted by  linux-staging.git, I submit to net-next.git again.
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