From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751643AbXA3TNg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:13:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751638AbXA3TNg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:13:36 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:51881 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751630AbXA3TNf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:13:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:12:31 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Florian Weimer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070130191231.GH20642@kroah.com> References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <877iv4ljai.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877iv4ljai.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:45:57PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Greg KH: > > > Yes, that's right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies > > free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through > > all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick > > through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source > > tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to > > do. > > Very nice spin indeed. > > This reminds of the the utterly broken dl2k network driver (which has > got interrupt handling problems and doesn't properly synchronize with > DMA transfers, IIRC). Hardware specs are available, and I guess I > could even provide a hardware sample, maybe even two. (If the > community provides driver support, it shouldn't matter if the vendor > actually supports development.) Have you tried contacting the network driver developers to work these issues out? thanks, greg k-h