From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: Adding Unisys virtnic.c to the Network Tree Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:13:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20141216211354.GB22253@gospo> References: <5490976C.20409@redhat.com> <54909B71.10609@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, benjamin.romer@unisys.com, dzickus@redhat.com, prarit@redhat.com, Bruce.Vessey@unisys.com, sparmaintainer@unisys.com To: Erik Arfvidson Return-path: Received: from ext3.cumulusnetworks.com ([198.211.106.187]:39420 "EHLO ext3.cumulusnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751516AbaLPVN7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:13:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54909B71.10609@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:52:01PM -0500, Erik Arfvidson wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I'm a partner engineer at Red Hat working for Unisys. Currently most of our > driver for our system reside in the staging tree Maintained by Greg KH. It > was suggested by one of the engineers at Red Hat Don Zickus that in order to > accelerate the process of moving the remaining drivers we pushed directly to > their specific system in the Linux Kernel. Currently virtnic which is our > Virtual Network driver resides internally at Unisys and dependencies are in > the staging tree(drivers/staging/unisys/). So would you be willing to take a > look at our Network driver in order to add it to your Network tree? Erik, I realize I'm not Dave, but I thought I could respond anyway. :) I suspect that if you posted the driver to this list, more eyes than just Dave would be willing to take a look and provide inline feedback. -andy