From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751652AbWD0W0N (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:26:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751697AbWD0W0N (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:26:13 -0400 Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk ([212.23.3.142]:7315 "EHLO rutherford.zen.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbWD0W0M (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: <445144FF.4070703@cantab.net> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:26:07 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Romieu CC: Linux-kernel , netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@pleyades.net Subject: Re: IP1000 gigabit nic driver References: <20060427142939.GA31473@fargo> <20060427185627.GA30871@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20060427185627.GA30871@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.70.146.41] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: > David Gómez : > [...] >> Does anybody in this list know why the IP1000 driver is not >> included in the kernel ? > > Afaik the driver has never been submitted for inclusion. > At least not on netdev@vger.kernel.org (hint, hint). > > [...] >> The card in question is: >> >> Sundance Technology Inc IC Plus IP1000 >> >> and the driver can be found in sundance web, sources > > URL please ? > >> included. I tried to contact the author but my email >> bounced. >> >> There's no LICENSE in the source, just copyrigth >> sentences in the .c files, so i'm not sure under >> which license it's distributed :-?. > > /me goes to http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html > > $ unzip -c IP1000A-Linux-driver-v2.09f.zip | grep MODULE_LICENSE > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); > > It's a bit bloaty but it does not seem too bad (not mergeable "as > is" though). Do you volunteer to test random cra^W^W carefully > engineered code on your computer to help the rework/merging process ? I finally got around to putting a 2nd NIC in my box that has one of this chips and was going to start fixing the driver up and preparing it for submission this weekend. Or I might try rewriting from scratch based on the datasheet depending on how horrific the code looks on closer inspection. Not got a whole lot of time to do this so no timescale for completion... David Vrabel