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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: Steps to integrate new 40G Network driver to the kernel tree
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:54:29 -0700
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:51:18 -0700
Joyce Yu - System Software <joyce.yu@oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We have a new 40G network Linux driver. What are the steps to integrate  
> it to the kernel tree?

There is a simple well documented process.
See the file SubmittingPatches in the kernel source Documentation directory.

Network drivers should be submitted to netdev list.