ethtool maintenance

ethtool maintenance

[Jeff Garzik]

So, a recent emergency surgery has really set me back, work-wise. 
ethtool [the userspace utility] 2.6.36 is still not out, and personally 
it remains a third or fourth priority.

While it's likely that I could get back to ethtool's patch queue next 
week, it continues to be low man on the totem pole.  Seems only fair to 
see if anyone else is interested in maintaining it.

I emailed Ben Hutchings privately about this, but haven't heard back, so 
I thought I'd go ahead and email the list.

Anyone interested?

	Jeff

Re: ethtool maintenance

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 03:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> So, a recent emergency surgery has really set me back, work-wise. 
> ethtool [the userspace utility] 2.6.36 is still not out, and personally 
> it remains a third or fourth priority.
> 
> While it's likely that I could get back to ethtool's patch queue next 
> week, it continues to be low man on the totem pole.  Seems only fair to 
> see if anyone else is interested in maintaining it.
> 
> I emailed Ben Hutchings privately about this, but haven't heard back, so 
> I thought I'd go ahead and email the list.
> 
> Anyone interested?

I am interested, but will need to clear it with my boss before making
such a commitment.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

Re: ethtool maintenance

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 14:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 03:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > So, a recent emergency surgery has really set me back, work-wise. 
> > ethtool [the userspace utility] 2.6.36 is still not out, and personally 
> > it remains a third or fourth priority.
> > 
> > While it's likely that I could get back to ethtool's patch queue next 
> > week, it continues to be low man on the totem pole.  Seems only fair to 
> > see if anyone else is interested in maintaining it.
> > 
> > I emailed Ben Hutchings privately about this, but haven't heard back, so 
> > I thought I'd go ahead and email the list.
> > 
> > Anyone interested?
> 
> I am interested, but will need to clear it with my boss before making
> such a commitment.

OK, this is fine.  Are there any patches waiting other than mine and
these?

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/67662/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/68237/
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69155/

I'll need to sort out my kernel.org account before I can publish a git
tree.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

Re: ethtool maintenance

[Jeff Garzik]

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On 11/15/2010 09:46 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 14:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 03:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> So, a recent emergency surgery has really set me back, work-wise.
>>> ethtool [the userspace utility] 2.6.36 is still not out, and personally
>>> it remains a third or fourth priority.
>>>
>>> While it's likely that I could get back to ethtool's patch queue next
>>> week, it continues to be low man on the totem pole.  Seems only fair to
>>> see if anyone else is interested in maintaining it.
>>>
>>> I emailed Ben Hutchings privately about this, but haven't heard back, so
>>> I thought I'd go ahead and email the list.
>>>
>>> Anyone interested?
>>
>> I am interested, but will need to clear it with my boss before making
>> such a commitment.
>
> OK, this is fine.  Are there any patches waiting other than mine and
> these?
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/67662/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/68237/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69155/
>
> I'll need to sort out my kernel.org account before I can publish a git
> tree.

I've attached an mbox.

In the short term, there is no need to wait, I can simply publish 'git 
pull' requests from you, and push a release out to SF.

I would recommend moving the tarball release area away from SF in the 
long term; SF is really going downhill.

	Jeff




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