Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:38:37 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] [1/9] Core module symbol namespaces code and intro.
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:15:23PM -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
>> The real problem is that these drivers are not in the upstream kernel.
>>
>> Are there common reasons why these drivers are not upstream?
>
> One might be that upstream has not accepted them.  Anything doing or 
> smelling of TOE comes to mind right away.

Which modules doing or smelling of TOE do work with unmodified vendor 
kernels?

AFAIR TOE was both not a module and required some hooks in the network 
stack, so it's completely outside the scope of this thread.

> rick jones

cu
Adrian

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