From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@do-not-panic.com,
kvalo@adurom.com, adrian.chadd@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] alx driver
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:11:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130612071107.GA7765@sig21.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370899609-13954-1-git-send-email-johannes@sipsolutions.net>
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:26:48PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> So ... I was stupid enough to not research drivers for this device
> before buying a board that included one, I figured in 2013 it wasn't
> really possible for such a simple gigabit ethernet device to not
> have a driver in Linux.
>
> Boy was I wrong.
>
> The vendor driver was previously posted on netdev, and subsequently
> somewhat cleaned up, but ... it still had useless hand-rolled locks
> (with test_and_set_bit/msleep!), horrible macros, and was generally
> quite a mess.
I had the same unpleasant experience about missing alx driver
for my Asus P8H77-V board. I found this:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx
https://github.com/qca/alx
And this mail talks about upstreaming:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/unified-drivers/2013-April/000064.html
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-12 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-10 21:26 [PATCH 0/1] alx driver Johannes Berg
2013-06-10 21:26 ` [PATCH 1/1] alx: add a simple AR816x/AR817x device driver Johannes Berg
2013-06-10 21:29 ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Berg
2013-06-11 22:23 ` Francois Romieu
2013-06-12 18:02 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-18 1:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-20 21:40 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-20 21:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-20 22:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-21 12:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-21 20:42 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-21 21:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-22 10:17 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-22 14:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-25 18:24 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-12 7:11 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2013-06-12 18:00 ` [PATCH 0/1] alx driver Johannes Berg
2013-06-12 20:33 ` [PATCH] alx: add a simple AR816x/AR817x device driver Johannes Berg
2013-06-12 20:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-06-12 20:51 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-12 23:02 ` Francois Romieu
2013-06-13 3:46 ` Joe Perches
2013-06-13 6:47 ` Francois Romieu
2013-06-13 21:52 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-13 23:03 ` Francois Romieu
2013-06-15 18:38 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-13 22:24 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-13 22:29 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-14 5:53 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-15 18:26 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-15 20:15 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-16 9:49 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-16 11:17 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-16 17:48 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-16 18:06 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-16 18:42 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-16 19:41 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-16 20:37 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2013-06-16 12:14 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-17 20:44 ` [PATCH v4] " Johannes Berg
2013-06-17 23:05 ` David Miller
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