From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750975AbXA3TsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:48:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750977AbXA3TsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:48:17 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:59835 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750973AbXA3TsQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:48:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:47:18 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Florian Weimer Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070130194718.GC22022@kroah.com> References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <877iv4ljai.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20070130191231.GH20642@kroah.com> <87ejpce21x.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ejpce21x.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 08:40:10PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Greg KH: > > >> 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? > > Yes, sort of: > There weren't any replies, unfortunately. Do you think a repost would > make sense? Try sending it to the netdev mailing list instead. Not all of the network driver developers read the whole lkml firehose. thanks, greg k-h