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.
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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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