From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Frederic LAMBERT <frdrc66@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, juhosg@openwrt.org
Subject: Re: Driver for embedded switch Micrel KS8995MA
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:37:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE79B78.1040807@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMVnO+nbtJjyjKXVnQz__A+91cUb6P7VSpkd=f67L1G=rP-dag@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On 12/13/11 19:33, Frederic LAMBERT wrote:
> I found an quite old driver on the net for the 5-ports 10/100 embedded
> switch Micrel KS8995MA.
> It had to be updated a little bit because a parameter was missing to
> the ks8995_registers_read()& write() functions.
>
> I haven't been able to contact its original author, Gabor Juhos, who
> wrote it in 2008 under GPL v2.
Gabor is responding pretty quickly in general. You are talking about
this particular driver?
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/spi-ks8995/src/spi_ks8995.c
>
> Is it possible to submit this driver as a patch to be included in the
> distribution?
> If yes, what would be the best place? driver/net/phy? driver/net/ethernet?
drivers/net/phy is the most appropriate place since it's a switch driver
but you certainly want to get in touch with Gabor to deal with this
driver inclusion first.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-13 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CAMVnO+n1g1rV_xLhqHONFcSBxJJ6wU3a8vzQ623jZKv0wYnh+A@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-13 18:33 ` Driver for embedded switch Micrel KS8995MA Frederic LAMBERT
2011-12-13 18:37 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2011-12-13 19:49 ` Gabor Juhos
[not found] ` <CAMVnO+n38nMTYc7nRfbywidNRM_OYPW8nT1SNAKZyxmhCBb3AA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-13 20:15 ` Gabor Juhos
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