netdev - Re: A new 40G Network driver ready to submit to the kernel tree

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Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:00:56 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Joyce Yu - System Software <joyce.yu@...cle.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A new 40G Network driver ready to submit to the kernel tree

Joyce Yu - System Software <joyce.yu@...cle.com> :
[...]
> I have a new 40G Network driver ready to submit to the kernel tree.
> The driver has been ported to latest linux-3.0-rc5 and
> net-2.6-353e5c9 tree.

It is a bit old. It could be better to rebase it against David Miller's
net-next tree as the drivers/net/ ethernet device tree has undergone
some changes.

The net-next tree is currently available at:

git://github.com/davem330/net-next.git

> The driver versions for 2.6.18 and 2.6.32 based kernel have been
> fully tested and released to the customer.  Shall I just send the
> driverxx.c and driverxx.h for net-2.6-353e5c9 and linux-3.0-rc5
> to this alias?

The remarks from 04/11 are still relevant but it will be a good start.

Did it went through internal reviewing by some usual Linux folks at
oracle (hint, hint) ?

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Ueimor
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