Re: [RESEND] benet: BladeEngine 10Gb NIC driver

Subbu Seetharaman
2008-11-03T12:25:31Z

If we could get more specific feedback about the areas that require cleanup, we can take care of them quickly.

Since the last posting, we have brought up the driver in a PPC system and fixed some endianness issues. As soon as I have some specific feedback, we can update the driver with these fixes as well.

Please let me know as soon as the driver is in the staging area.

Thanks.

Subbu

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jeff@garzik.org]
To: Subbu Seetharaman [mailto:subbus@serverengines.com], Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com]
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML [mailto:linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org]
Sent: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:15:15 -0800
Subject: Re: [RESEND] benet: BladeEngine 10Gb NIC driver

Subbu Seetharaman wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> It is more than two months since the benet driver patch was made available as a single file as suggeted by you :
>
> ftp://ftp.serverengines.com/0001.benet.patch
>
> I have not seen this applied. Is there any reason for not applying this patch ? Do you want a patch against the latest git tree ?

The overall consensus at this year's Linux Kernel Summit was that this
driver still needs a lot of cleanup, so I'm gonna try an experiment and
stick this in the staging tree (currently jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git#benet).

Greg, do I need to do anything beyond simply putting it into the
directory? Do I need to add some code to taint, perhaps?

Jeff

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