[TULIP] Need new maintainer

[TULIP] Need new maintainer

[Valerie Henson]

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

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

[Kyle McMartin]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Since I already take care of a major consumer of these devices (parisc,
which pretty much all have tulip) I'm willing to take care of this.
Alternately, Grant is probably willing.

Cheers,
	Kyle

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

[Valerie Henson]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Since I already take care of a major consumer of these devices (parisc,
> which pretty much all have tulip) I'm willing to take care of this.
> Alternately, Grant is probably willing.

And I coulda handed you a suitcase full of cards and I missed my
chance!

It's fine by me, although Jeff is the final arbiter.

Thanks!

-VAL

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

[david]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Valerie Henson wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Since I already take care of a major consumer of these devices (parisc,
>> which pretty much all have tulip) I'm willing to take care of this.
>> Alternately, Grant is probably willing.
>
> And I coulda handed you a suitcase full of cards and I missed my
> chance!
>
> It's fine by me, although Jeff is the final arbiter.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -VAL

when the maintainership gets settled send me a message and I can send you 
a couple of different cards (including a d-link 4-port card)

David Lang

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

[Jeff Garzik]

Valerie Henson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Since I already take care of a major consumer of these devices (parisc,
>> which pretty much all have tulip) I'm willing to take care of this.
>> Alternately, Grant is probably willing.
> 
> And I coulda handed you a suitcase full of cards and I missed my
> chance!
> 
> It's fine by me, although Jeff is the final arbiter.

No objections here...

	Jeff

Re: [TULIP] Need new maintainer

[Grant Grundler]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:58PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:04:13PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote:
> > 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.

Val!
I'm sorry to see you have to drop this one...C'est la Vie.

> Since I already take care of a major consumer of these devices (parisc,
> which pretty much all have tulip) I'm willing to take care of this.
> Alternately, Grant is probably willing.

Yeah, I am willing and able to maintain tulip as well.

Either way, parisc and some mips64 folks are stuck with tulip since
that's what is "embedded" on the motherboard. So it would make sense
for someone from either camp to maintain it.

Thanks to David Lang for the offer of 4-port Dlink Tulip card.
HP has two types of 4-port tulip cards (64-bit/33Mhz and 32-bit/33Mhz)
that I gave to Val...so whoever picks up the maintainership can
probably (eventually) get those from Val.

thanks,
grant