From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valerie Henson Subject: [TULIP] Need new maintainer Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:04:13 -0600 Message-ID: <20070730190412.GA16182@rainbow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Grant Grundler , Jeff Garzik To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tulip-users@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from mailhost.nmt.edu ([129.138.4.52]:60457 "EHLO mailhost.nmt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763159AbXG3TEU (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:04:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org The Tulip network driver needs a new maintainer! I no longer have time to maintain the Tulip network driver and I'm stepping down. Jeff Garzik would be happy to get volunteers. The only current major outstanding patch I know of is Grant's shutdown race patch, which was incorrectly dropped as obsoleted from -mm (my fault, I was moving at the time): http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg12161.html I have a very much non-working patch to do it with the preferred order, ask me for it and I'll see if I can dig it up. It's unpleasant partly because it pointed out a lot of latent bugs (e.g., del_timer_sync() in interrupt context). Also, someone is working on support for an emulated Tulip card (yes, Tulip will _never_ die), so expect possible patches for that. -VAL