From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: new driver for IBM ethernet chip Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 09:00:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20060602090034.8f9bf036.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, MEDER@de.ibm.com, THEMANN@de.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:28883 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932478AbWFBP5w (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:57:52 -0400 Received: from midway.site ([71.245.102.105]) by xenotime.net for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 08:57:50 -0700 To: Christoph Raisch In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:02:37 +0200 Christoph Raisch wrote: > We're currently developing a new Ethernet device driver for a 10G IBM chip > for System p. (ppc64) > > A later version of the driver should end up in mainline kernel. > How should we proceed to get first comments by the community? > Either post this code as a patch to netdev or yes > put a full tarball on for example sourceforge? nope. Please read and observe: Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Section 3 of it, References, for other sources of expectations/requirements. The -mm tree also contains Documentation/SubmitChecklist that you may find useful. --- ~Randy