netdev - Re: Ethernet drivers wiki page

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Message-ID: <20100604152324.1fa28f2f@nehalam>
Date:	Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:23:24 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet drivers wiki page

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:04:17 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:
> > Where can I start adding documentation for our Ethernet drivers
> > upstream? I was hoping for a wiki but I don't think we have a netdev
> > one yet. Shall we create one or piggy back on something else? I'm
> > reviewing:
> >
> > https://wiki.kernel.org/
> >
> > FWIW, I want to see something like this:
> >
> > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
> >
> > But for ethernet.
> 
> Since I've stuffed a few ethernet drivers on compat-wireless I might
> as well start carrying more. So now we'd have 802.11, Bluetooth and
> Ethernet all backported using the same framework, automatically, down
> to at least the oldest stable kernel supported listed on kernel.org
> and using all a generic compat module.
> 
> I want to document all this crap.

Why not Documentation/networking in kernel source? There is already
documentation there though much of it is out of date.
This has the advantage of having change log and matching kernel version.
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