From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Beers Subject: Re: wanPMC-CxT1E1 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:43:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4f6ba3b0910281843p73ef31bdm54b4640c21dbffbc@mail.gmail.com> References: <4f6ba3b0910261322j273c977fm356506c46f095832@mail.gmail.com> <20091026204144.GA28436@kroah.com> <4f6ba3b0910271048n10ff37fek9af191b133892e1e@mail.gmail.com> <20091029010535.GA18723@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:37193 "EHLO mail-ew0-f208.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754655AbZJ2Bnk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:43:40 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so1373801ewy.37 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:43:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20091029010535.GA18723@kroah.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:48:53PM -0400, Bob Beers wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> > Getting it to build on 2.6.31 is more important than RHEL5, we can= 't do >> > anything with an old kernel like that. >> >> ok, so where do I start, I have a system ready to start >> =A0git cloning, and creating patches. I googled for a while >> =A0but didn't find a nice recipe for participating in the -staging >> =A0process. > > Ick, this isn't going to be easy, a lot of work needs to be done on t= he > driver to get it just to build on the latest kernel tree. =A0I person= ally > don't have the time to do it right now, but will gladly accept patche= s > that add it to the staging tree if someone else wants to do it. > > sorry, I've started down the path. Is 'successfully compiles' the only requir= ement for the first patch? thanks, --=20 -Bob Beers