Re: ethtool maintenance

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 14:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 03:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > So, a recent emergency surgery has really set me back, work-wise. 
> > ethtool [the userspace utility] 2.6.36 is still not out, and personally 
> > it remains a third or fourth priority.
> > 
> > While it's likely that I could get back to ethtool's patch queue next 
> > week, it continues to be low man on the totem pole.  Seems only fair to 
> > see if anyone else is interested in maintaining it.
> > 
> > I emailed Ben Hutchings privately about this, but haven't heard back, so 
> > I thought I'd go ahead and email the list.
> > 
> > Anyone interested?
> 
> I am interested, but will need to clear it with my boss before making
> such a commitment.

OK, this is fine.  Are there any patches waiting other than mine and
these?

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/67662/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/68237/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69155/

I'll need to sort out my kernel.org account before I can publish a git
tree.

Ben.

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