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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:48:03 -0400 From: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: asix usb network driver: nfg On 11-10-26 10:17 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:23:15 -0400 > >> Any strong advance objections to replacing the in-kernel version >> with a (fixed) vendor open source version? > > It need to meet the coding etc. standards for inclusion, last > time I looked at it their driver indeed need a bit of cleaning up. Yeah, okay -- I've got approval to spend some paid time on the effort, so I'll have a deeper look at things. > It's a sad situation, they started with the upstream driver and > just hacked on it however they pleased in their private copy. > So now we have this huge divergance and no effort on their part > to rectify things. Will there be any issues with "Signed-Off-By" on this? It's all GPL, by License, but we don't necessarily know who make what changes to their driver since they forked it. I don't think that matters much, but then what I think doesn't matter much either. :) But it is the only one of the two that's close to working (and does work when DEBUG messages are enabled -- a timing issue somewhere that I'll fix). Thanks David. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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