Re: [PATCH] IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 15:57:36 EST


On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:24:10PM -0500, Santiago Leon wrote:
> Here's a patch that adds the inter-partition Virtual Ethernet driver for
> newer IBM iSeries and pSeries systems:
>
> http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/ppc64/ibmveth.patch
>
> The patch applies against the 2.4.25-pre6 tree...

Usually patches are subitted inline to ease review..

> Jeff, can you formally add this driver to 2.4?... I'm waiting for some
> ppc64 architectural addition to send out the driver for 2.6...

I think we shouldn't accept new drivers in 2.4 anymore unless they're
already in 2.6
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