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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Nick Thompson <Nick.Thompson@comtrol.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RocketPort Linux driver errors on module reload
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:35:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471663EE.6090602@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B1F576FE19C55C43B8D2E31F061B50C062C3EE@exchange.comtrol.com>

On 10/17/2007 07:06 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I've been wanting to get the driver that is included in the kernel up to date, and there is an active project here at comtrol to get the current code (driver version 3.08 beta) up to Linux kernel programming standards. The driver version that is included in the kernel (and has been patched a bit I'm sure since it's been in there a while) is version 2.09. The latest version (3.08 beta) can be obtained from: 

the easiest way is to get diff -u 2.09 3.08 and port it by hand, at least I
ususally do it this way.

> ftp://ftp.comtrol.com/beta/rport/drivers/u_pci/linux/rocketport-linux-3.08.tar.gz
> 
> If anyone has any helpful pointers (no pun intended) or comments on the code, I'd love to listen. 

Convert to pci probing and in-kernel firmware loading :). The code is big mess
due to ifdefs and much unneeded material, it's likely impossible to say this is
wrong and this not, if you won't post a patch, where people will see the changes
you want to make. Then you will have feedback :).

regards,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@gmail.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17 17:06 RocketPort Linux driver errors on module reload Nick Thompson
2007-10-17 19:35 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2007-10-17 19:48   ` Nick Thompson
2007-10-18 22:08     ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-18 23:02       ` Nick Thompson
2007-12-08 10:00         ` Jiri Slaby
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-15  9:55 Ferenc Wagner
2007-10-15 11:25 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-15 12:57   ` Ferenc Wagner
2007-10-15 19:09     ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-16  7:47       ` Wagner Ferenc
2007-10-16 21:19         ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-18 21:53           ` Ferenc Wagner
2007-10-18 22:08             ` Jiri Slaby
2007-10-18 22:48               ` Ferenc Wagner

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