From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro. Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: <20071127213837.GG3406@stusta.de> References: <20071122343.446909000@suse.de> <200711261228.15155.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20071126102533.1c774870@freepuppy.rosehill.pdx.hemminger.net> <20071127190037.GB30057@redhat.com> <20071127210942.GF3406@stusta.de> <474C88EB.9040300@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Dave Jones , Stephen Hemminger , Rusty Russell , Roland Dreier , Andi Kleen , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org To: Rick Jones Return-path: Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:33849 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757495AbXK0Vis (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:38:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474C88EB.9040300@hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote: >> The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel. >> >> Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream? > > One might be that upstream has not accepted them. Anything doing or > smelling of TOE comes to mind right away. Which modules doing or smelling of TOE do work with unmodified vendor kernels? AFAIR TOE was both not a module and required some hooks in the network stack, so it's completely outside the scope of this thread. > rick jones cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed