From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: David Hendel <david@silicom.co.il>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Anna Lukin <annal@silicom.co.il>
Subject: Re: FW: ethtool patch to support bypass / fail-to-wire function
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:03:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140730220343.GA309@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F803DED@exchange2010.silicom.local>
David Hendel <david@silicom.co.il> :
[...]
> We have our bypass driver updated and we would like to move forward with
> integrating it into the kernel.
> We think it need to be under drivers/net/
>
> The description is per the below, taken from readme in linux.
> The patch is attached,
> Let me know how we can proceed with that. what should be the next step.
Executive summary: this code does not even remotely look like network
kernel code. The patch completely messes code that had been reworked
in drivers/staging.
It's very embarrassing.
--
Ueimor
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3BFAEADE799AF145974162DF00E013AF018F794DE5@exchange2010.silicom.local>
[not found] ` <1402322812.23860.76.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
2014-06-09 20:27 ` ethtool patch to support bypass / fail-to-wire function David Hendel
2014-06-11 7:06 ` David Hendel
2014-06-11 16:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-06-11 16:55 ` David Hendel
2014-06-11 18:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-30 12:55 ` FW: " David Hendel
2014-07-30 22:03 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
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