netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/1] alx driver

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Message-ID: <20130612071107.GA7765@sig21.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:11:07 +0200
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcgrof@...not-panic.com, kvalo@...rom.com,
	adrian.chadd@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] alx driver

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:26:48PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> So ... I was stupid enough to not research drivers for this device
> before buying a board that included one, I figured in 2013 it wasn't
> really possible for such a simple gigabit ethernet device to not
> have a driver in Linux.
> 
> Boy was I wrong.
> 
> The vendor driver was previously posted on netdev, and subsequently
> somewhat cleaned up, but ... it still had useless hand-rolled locks
> (with test_and_set_bit/msleep!), horrible macros, and was generally
> quite a mess.

I had the same unpleasant experience about missing alx driver
for my Asus P8H77-V board.  I found this:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx
https://github.com/qca/alx

And this mail talks about upstreaming:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/unified-drivers/2013-April/000064.html


Johannes
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