From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add dependency on fw class module Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:19:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1277291941.26161.9.camel@localhost> References: <1277276075-29322-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ameen.rahman@qlogic.com, Anirban Chakraborty To: Amit Kumar Salecha Return-path: Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:43613 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750999Ab0FWLTJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:19:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1277276075-29322-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 23:54 -0700, Amit Kumar Salecha wrote: > From: Anirban Chakraborty > > netxen_nic and qlcnic driver depends on firmware_class module. [...] By the way, I noticed that these drivers are very similar, and it looks like qlcnic has code for a bunch of NetXen boards even though it doesn't include their device IDs in its device ID table. Have you considered merging the two? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.