From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933626Ab3CVPjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:39:20 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:58599 "EHLO mail-da0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932621Ab3CVPjT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:39:19 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add support for handling queueing in hardware From: Ben Collins In-Reply-To: <20130322.111759.2108472348146991505.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:39:20 -0400 Cc: afleming@freescale.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <9AEAD974-4549-475A-AE15-C92523CD2466@gmail.com> References: <20130322.103302.1277256650283142022.davem@davemloft.net> <20130322.111759.2108472348146991505.davem@davemloft.net> To: David Miller X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:17 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Collins > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:43:44 -0400 > >> "For us" is a loose term, when it's more that we are attempting to >> upstream code so our system is supported by a mainline kernel >> instead of having one-off kernels. > > If this other person doesn't want their code upstreams, it is absolutely > inappropriate for you to try and force the matter and "do it for them." If your company had hardware going to production, you'd want it supported in mainline too, I suspect. Either way, I'll redact this patch because it isn't necessarily needed for the driver to work. -- Servergy : http://www.servergy.com/ SwissDisk : http://www.swissdisk.com/ Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ My Blog : http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/