Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/18] net/axgbe: add minimal dev init and uninit support

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 3/9/2018 8:42 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Kumar <Ravi1.kumar@amd.com>

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> diff --git a/drivers/net/axgbe/Makefile b/drivers/net/axgbe/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..c8a1e87
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/axgbe/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
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Hi Ravi,

What has been modified in this release?

As far as I remember axgbe skipped previous release because driver was working
on switching to the SPDX tags? And this version of the patch is again without
SPDX tags.

This driver is out for a while now and not able to merged yet. If SPDX work is
blocking you, I would suggest taking this issue to the tech-board and ask for
exception for it.