netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 30952] New: asix driver broken since 2.6.35

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Message-Id: <20110314.144553.70194816.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, lipski.bogdan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 30952] New: asix driver broken since 2.6.35

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:43:09 -0700

> 
> (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
> bugzilla web interface).
> 
> The reporter says "workaround suggested in:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16831 seems to work well
> for me as well".  That workaround appears to be "dump the kernel driver
> and use the driver off the vendor's website".

This is an issue you've brought up to me several months ago.

I started looking into it, but because the vendor driver development
happens in a completely different universe the divergence noise is
substantial and it's a huge effort to consolidate these two drivers.

I think that until the vendor starts to care, nothing is going to
happen to resolve these ASIC driver bugs.

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