Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 14:48:34 EST


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: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/448446>
> 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
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