From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 30952] New: asix driver broken since 2.6.35 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:49:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20110314144954.b87fdd64.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20110314144309.a303662f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110314.144553.70194816.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, lipski.bogdan@gmail.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35721 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753120Ab1CNVuq (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:50:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110314.144553.70194816.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:43:09 -0700 > > > > > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > > bugzilla web interface). > > > > The reporter says "workaround suggested in: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16831 seems to work well > > for me as well". That workaround appears to be "dump the kernel driver > > and use the driver off the vendor's website". > > This is an issue you've brought up to me several months ago. > > I started looking into it, but because the vendor driver development > happens in a completely different universe the divergence noise is > substantial and it's a huge effort to consolidate these two drivers. > > I think that until the vendor starts to care, nothing is going to > happen to resolve these ASIC driver bugs. Yup. I suppose an alternative approach might be to feed the current vendor driver through the drivers/staging process (preferably with their assistance!) then run with two alternative drivers for a while and eventually remove the old one. But that's without having looked at the vendor code. Is it a Big Mess?