netdev - Re: asix usb network driver: nfg

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Message-ID: <4EA9A763.3000607@teksavvy.com>
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.
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