Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

[Jesse Huang]

Dear All:

I am IC Plus software engineer. We have IP100A 10/100 fast network adapter
driver need to submit to Linux 2.6.x kernel. Please tell me who should I
submit to.

IP100A's device ID is 0x13f0 0200.

Thanks you all!

Best Regards,
Jesse Huang.

Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:41:29 +0800
"Jesse Huang" <jesse@icplus.com.tw> wrote:

> Dear All:
> 
> I am IC Plus software engineer. We have IP100A 10/100 fast network adapter
> driver need to submit to Linux 2.6.x kernel.

Thanks!

> Please tell me who should I submit to.
> 

Please send it to the four addresses to which you sent this email.

Documentation/SubmittingDrivers, Documentation/SubmittingPatches and
Documentation/SubmitChecklist contain helpful info.

Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

[Francois Romieu]

Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw> :
[...]
> I am IC Plus software engineer. We have IP100A 10/100 fast network adapter
> driver need to submit to Linux 2.6.x kernel. Please tell me who should I
> submit to.
> 
> IP100A's device ID is 0x13f0 0200.

You do not need to do anything:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53

As far as I have checked before forwarding Pedro Alejandro's patch, the
out-of-tree IP100 driver exhibited no significant difference with the
sundance driver.

-- 
Ueimor

Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

[Jesse Huang]

Hi Francois:

    Sorry, I don't know this patch before. IP100A is a new version of IP100
(sundance.c). I don't know what is you suggestion of IP100A driver? Should
I...

1. Only updata sundance.c to support IP100A
2. Release ip100a.c which support ip100(sundance) to kernel 2.6.x and ask to
remove sundance.c.
3. Release ip100a.c with sundance.c both to kernel 2.6.x

We hope to use IP100a.c as our product driver, so 2. and 3. will better for
IC Plus. But we will still follow your suggestion, if you feel 1. was better
for kernel.

Thanks!

Jesse

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francois Romieu" <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: "Jesse Huang" <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; "Andrew
Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>; "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x
kernel


Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw> :
[...]
> I am IC Plus software engineer. We have IP100A 10/100 fast network adapter
> driver need to submit to Linux 2.6.x kernel. Please tell me who should I
> submit to.
>
> IP100A's device ID is 0x13f0 0200.

You do not need to do anything:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53

As far as I have checked before forwarding Pedro Alejandro's patch, the
out-of-tree IP100 driver exhibited no significant difference with the
sundance driver.

-- 
Ueimor

Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x kernel

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:55 +0800, Jesse Huang wrote:
> Hi Francois:
> 
>     Sorry, I don't know this patch before. IP100A is a new version of IP100
> (sundance.c). I don't know what is you suggestion of IP100A driver? Should
> I...
> 
> 1. Only updata sundance.c to support IP100A
> 2. Release ip100a.c which support ip100(sundance) to kernel 2.6.x and ask to
> remove sundance.c.
> 3. Release ip100a.c with sundance.c both to kernel 2.6.x
> 
> We hope to use IP100a.c as our product driver, so 2. and 3. will better for
> IC Plus. But we will still follow your suggestion, if you feel 1. was better
> for kernel.


Hello,

in general the policy for Linux is that if adding support for a new
device is only minor changes to an existing driver, it is better to
update this existing driver with those changes. The reason for that is
that this makes it possible to share bugfixes and testing between both
devices. Now there is a point where it no longer makes sense to share,
for example when the devices are really very, very different. 

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

Hello, We had some patch need to submit for sundance.c

[Jesse Huang]

Dear All:

We had some patch need to submit. Would you tell me where to get current
sundance.c for myself to generate those patch files.

Sorry, I only got this link:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=f13b2a195c708fe32d8c53d05988875a51bd52e1;hb=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53;f=drivers/net/sundance.c

Thanks for everybody.

Best Regards,
Jesse Huang

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francois Romieu" <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: "Jesse Huang" <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; "Andrew
Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>; "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Hello, We have IP100A Linux driver need to submit to 2.6.x
kernel


Jesse Huang <jesse@icplus.com.tw> :
[...]
> I am IC Plus software engineer. We have IP100A 10/100 fast network adapter
> driver need to submit to Linux 2.6.x kernel. Please tell me who should I
> submit to.
>
> IP100A's device ID is 0x13f0 0200.

You do not need to do anything:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53

As far as I have checked before forwarding Pedro Alejandro's patch, the
out-of-tree IP100 driver exhibited no significant difference with the
sundance driver.

-- 
Ueimor

Re: Hello, We had some patch need to submit for sundance.c

[Jeff Garzik]

Jesse Huang wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> We had some patch need to submit. Would you tell me where to get current
> sundance.c for myself to generate those patch files.
> 
> Sorry, I only got this link:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=f13b2a195c708fe32d8c53d05988875a51bd52e1;hb=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53;f=drivers/net/sundance.c

You need to install the "git" software package, and then check out the 
"upstream" branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git

Then provide patches against the drivers/net/sundance.c driver found there.

git software download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git overview: http://git.or.cz/
git tutorial: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html
git man pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs

Thanks,

	Jeff

Re: Hello, We had some patch need to submit for sundance.c

[Jesse Huang]

Hi Jeff:

    I will use sundance.c in this tree to generate patch files.

Thanks for this information.

Jesse

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Jesse Huang" <jesse@icplus.com.tw>
Cc: "Francois Romieu" <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>;
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; "Andrew Morton"
<akpm@osdl.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Hello, We had some patch need to submit for sundance.c


Jesse Huang wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> We had some patch need to submit. Would you tell me where to get current
> sundance.c for myself to generate those patch files.
>
> Sorry, I only got this link:
>
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=f13b2a195c708fe32d8c53d05988875a51bd52e1;hb=1668b19f75cb949f930814a23b74201ad6f76a53;f=drivers/net/sundance.c

You need to install the "git" software package, and then check out the
"upstream" branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git

Then provide patches against the drivers/net/sundance.c driver found there.

git software download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git overview: http://git.or.cz/
git tutorial: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html
git man pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs

Thanks,

Jeff