Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964789Ab2HWK3T (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:29:19 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:42081 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753972Ab2HWK3Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:29:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120823.001342.959509094678320374.davem@davemloft.net> References: <157393863283F442885425D2C45428562A4F5169@nasanexd02f.na.qualcomm.com> <20120822.234019.1546353507351890178.davem@davemloft.net> <157393863283F442885425D2C45428562A4F519A@nasanexd02f.na.qualcomm.com> <20120823.001342.959509094678320374.davem@davemloft.net> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:28:55 +0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: i1WrXDEdE1IVAs1-h3H23P_aeR0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver To: David Miller Cc: xiong@qca.qualcomm.com, cjren@qca.qualcomm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qca-linux-team@qualcomm.com, nic-devel@qualcomm.com, Adrian Chadd , Vinod Nagarajan , Julia Lawall , Lisong Guo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1599 Lines: 40 On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: "Huang, Xiong" > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:56:51 +0000 > >> I'm afraid someone also rejects my request to add such operation to >> ethtool > > If you don't design it properly, we certainly will ask you to make > changes. > > But it stands a chance of actually being accepted, whereas your > debugfs thing absolutely does not. Xiong, you can dump that poo and put it into crap/ in compat-drivers until you find a resolution to properly address that properly. FWIW... if we give a rats ass on trying to put an end typical internal proprietary development trees to port drivers to different OSes [0] here's a cheesy attempt to try address this with a target for Linux and FreeBSD as a first objective: https://github.com/mcgrof/alx The goal would be to push companies to do their bringup development *openly* and even if they do have support for other OSes, for that poo to also be public. The alx driver is a dead simple so my if at all possible to show a *different* community-lead way to port drivers and for this poo to be public my hope is that the alx driver can be the test case for us to try it on. Xiong, and whoever cares please think about it. I welcome feedback from others. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-r3H0bY8c Luis -- 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/