Possibly wrong contact for e100 driver

Possibly wrong contact for e100 driver

[iSteve]

Greetings,
in past few days, I've been trying to obtain certian information about 
behavior of e100 NIC driver with my minipci card. My first hit was the 
contact information mentioned in the header of e100.c, that is, "Linux 
NICS <linux.nics@intel.com>".

I've sent in my mail, praying for reply. The first reply was automated 
response, which suggested me eg. Win 3.11 install notes. After asking 
tech support reply, the email from tech support, which arrived day 
later, only told me that Intel doesn't distribute MiniPCI cards 
directly, instead sells them to companies who distribute them. He also 
suggested me to "for the best possible technical support and the latest 
drivers for your MPCI hardware, please contact the manufacturer of your 
PC".

Since I sent a rather technical question, and got such reply (and no 
reply so far, when I asked for better support - contact on someone 
closer to the actual driver, be it from Intel or not, politely), I 
wonder whether the contact information is still up to date? If no, what 
is the new contact information?

Thanks in advance.

  - iSteve

Re: Possibly wrong contact for e100 driver

[Jason R. Martin]

On 8/28/05, iSteve <isteve@rulez.cz> wrote:
> Greetings,
> in past few days, I've been trying to obtain certian information about
> behavior of e100 NIC driver with my minipci card. My first hit was the
> contact information mentioned in the header of e100.c, that is, "Linux
> NICS <linux.nics@intel.com>".
> 
> I've sent in my mail, praying for reply. The first reply was automated
> response, which suggested me eg. Win 3.11 install notes. After asking
> tech support reply, the email from tech support, which arrived day
> later, only told me that Intel doesn't distribute MiniPCI cards
> directly, instead sells them to companies who distribute them. He also
> suggested me to "for the best possible technical support and the latest
> drivers for your MPCI hardware, please contact the manufacturer of your
> PC".
> 
> Since I sent a rather technical question, and got such reply (and no
> reply so far, when I asked for better support - contact on someone
> closer to the actual driver, be it from Intel or not, politely), I
> wonder whether the contact information is still up to date? If no, what
> is the new contact information?

Try asking on netdev@vger.kernel.org.  Or email the guys listed in
MAINTAINERS for e100.  Or check out the e1000 sourceforge project
(which covers e100 and ixgb as well).

Jason

Re: Possibly wrong contact for e100 driver

[Martin Josefsson]

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On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 20:50 +0200, iSteve wrote:
> Greetings,
> in past few days, I've been trying to obtain certian information about 
> behavior of e100 NIC driver with my minipci card. My first hit was the 
> contact information mentioned in the header of e100.c, that is, "Linux 
> NICS <linux.nics@intel.com>".
> 
> I've sent in my mail, praying for reply. The first reply was automated 
> response, which suggested me eg. Win 3.11 install notes. After asking 

I once sent a patch to linux.nics@intel.com for a use-after-free bug and
the reply I got was one that asked me which operating system I was
using. But to be fair I got one additional reply one day later that
suggested me to apply the latest patch from Jeff Garziks netdriver tree.

So I just sent the patch to the maintainers of the driver (at intel) and
netdev, they picked it up. So it's probably best to mail the maintainers
and cc netdev@vger.kernel.org , other people might be interested in this
information as well.
You'll find the maintainers listed in the MAINTAINERS file.

-- 
/Martin

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