From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/net/usb/asix: resync from vendor's copy Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4EBC3156.2050409@teksavvy.com> References: <4EA89972.5060101@teksavvy.com> <20111026.194045.2019668159403582571.davem@davemloft.net> <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> <20111026.221719.2216112919297458522.davem@davemloft.net> <4EB19BBE.5050602@teksavvy.com> <4EBAB8F5.1010101@teksavvy.com> <4EBBD936.40705@teksavvy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings , Michal Marek , Freddy Xin , "ASIX Allan Email [office]" To: Grant Grundler Return-path: Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:43180 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752038Ab1KJUR2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11-11-10 11:54 AM, Grant Grundler wrote: > ... and I was certain on their own, ASIX > wouldn't get that upstream in one shot. No one knows them. No one > trusts them. Asix never mentioned that they had already hired you to > do it (and I am pretty sure you could have). Just to clarify, ASIX did not contract me for any of this. Rather, another of my clients requires working ASIX USB support, and approved my working on that at their expense. I've got working ASIX support now, just not in the mainline kernel. The code is GPL, so we could stuff it in anyway, but I think it would be better to do so with the full cooperation of the nice folks at ASIX. But for now, they seem happy to prefer feeding patches only as requested, currently through Grant, rather than trying to get the in-kernel driver brought fully up to date. Cheers