From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christer Weinigel Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:29:23 +0100 Message-ID: <49B96293.7040003@weinigel.se> References: <49B82566.3070909@weinigel.se> <20090311171354.04c7a63d@nehalam> <49B8E6D4.2030702@weinigel.se> <20090312.055523.193191701.davem@davemloft.net> <49B91A7B.7050303@weinigel.se> <20090312151211.GB24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B93777.7030202@weinigel.se> <20090312174933.GC24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B95386.2030600@weinigel.se> <20090312190517.GD24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , shemminger@vyatta.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from 2-1-3-15a.ens.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.31.214]:35463 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751005AbZCLT31 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:29:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090312190517.GD24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Neil Horman wrote: > You didn't read what I wrote very closely, I specifically said you have to dig > or host to do name lookups, specifically because of the issues with getXbyY. Did too. :-) > 3) Your knoweldge from (1) is insufficient to implement the required initramfs in (2) > in (assuming your example time frame) 1 week? > > Seriously? Yup. A week right now is a luxury I usually don't have right now. I shouldn't even be spending time writing this mail, but I'm eh, right, waiting for a compilation to finish. >> Anyway, I've spent more time on discussing this now than it would have >> taken me to hack the device drivers on half a dozen platforms, so I >> think I'll give up. Maybe I'll take a look at some initrd+klibc+dhcp >> stuff when I have some free time next Christmas (that's when I usually >> get to play around with my hobby projects), maybe not. :-) >> > I sympathize with you. This is exactly what soured me on embedded work a few > years back. Embedded shops are forever compromising doing things correctly in > the name of time and schedules, never paying any heed to the possibility that > taking extra time to do things in an agreed upon, organized and standard fashion > might pay off for them in the long run. Actually, I'm quite happy about work so far. When worked on improving the Samsung S3C24A0 patches Sandeep Patil had made, I got approval from my boss to spend time on making them suitable for submission to the official kernel, so I was able to do a lot more than just "make things work now". But the last few months have been kind of hectic. /Christer