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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Joyce Yu - System Software <joyce.yu@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Steps to integrate new 40G Network driver to the kernel tree
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:57:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302915420.5282.783.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA8D9F6.2070908@oracle.com>

On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:51 -0700, Joyce Yu - System Software wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We have a new 40G network Linux driver. What are the steps to integrate  
> it to the kernel tree?

Make sure it works as an addition to David Miller's net-2.6 git tree.
Send patches here for review, in <100K chunks (that's the limit for this
list).  Update it based on review feedback, and repeat as necessary.

Documentation/SubmittingPatches has general advice on patches.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-15 23:51 Steps to integrate new 40G Network driver to the kernel tree Joyce Yu - System Software
2011-04-16  0:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
     [not found]   ` <4E012D80.4090907@oracle.com>
2011-06-21 23:52     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-06-21 23:53     ` Joyce Yu - System Software
2011-06-22  0:14       ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-16  0:57 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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