Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760808AbXK1COl (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:14:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759586AbXK1COb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:14:31 -0500 Received: from g5t0007.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.44]:16219 "EHLO g5t0007.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759581AbXK1COa (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:14:30 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 727 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:14:30 EST Message-ID: <474CCBF0.5060809@hp.com> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:01:20 -0800 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Dave Jones , Stephen Hemminger , Rusty Russell , Roland Dreier , Andi Kleen , 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. References: <20071122343.446909000@suse.de> <200711261228.15155.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20071126102533.1c774870@freepuppy.rosehill.pdx.hemminger.net> <20071127190037.GB30057@redhat.com> <20071127210942.GF3406@stusta.de> <474C88EB.9040300@hp.com> <20071127213837.GG3406@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20071127213837.GG3406@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 25 Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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? At the very real risk of further demonstrating my Linux vocabulary limitations, I believe there is a "Linux Sockets Acceleration" module/whatnot for NetXen and related 10G NICs, and a cxgb3_toe (?) module for Chelsio 10G NICs. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/