From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: asix usb network driver: nfg Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20111026.221719.2216112919297458522.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4EA89972.5060101@teksavvy.com> <20111026.194045.2019668159403582571.davem@davemloft.net> <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: kernel@teksavvy.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:35087 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077Ab1J0CRZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Mark Lord Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:23:15 -0400 > Any strong advance objections to replacing the in-kernel version > with a (fixed) vendor open source version? It need to meet the coding etc. standards for inclusion, last time I looked at it their driver indeed need a bit of cleaning up. It's a sad situation, they started with the upstream driver and just hacked on it however they pleased in their private copy. So now we have this huge divergance and no effort on their part to rectify things.