All, Forth submission for the upstream inclusion of the qla3xxx Ethernet driver. This is a complementary network driver for our ISP4XXX parts. There is a concurrent effort underway to get the iSCSI driver (qla4xxx) integrated upstream as well.
This submission is contained in a patch file that does the following: Adds: drivers/net/qla3xxx.c drivers/net/qla3xxx.h Modifies: MAINTAINERS drivers/net/Makefile drivers/net/Kconfig Built and tested using kernel 2.6.17-rc4. Patch file qla3xxxpatch1-v2.02.00k30 is at the following link: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/network/upstream/2.02.00k30/ third submission: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114867289310324&w=2 Comments from third submission: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=114868292920149&w=2 Changes in this release: 1. Call unregister_netdev before doing any hardware tear down. 2. Call pci_unmap_single before reference in eth_type_trans. 3. Change kfree to free_netdev. 4. Cleaned up indentation. 5. Changed more globals to use const. 6. ethtool get_link reports carrier state. 7. Got rid if multicast list comparisons since kernel has to do it. 8. Added call to prefetch before sending packet up the stack. 9. Renamed files to qla3xxx.c and qla3xxx.h. 10. Moved files to drivers/net and got rid of drivers/net/qla3xxx. 11. Updated Kconfig and Makefile to include driver build. 12. Cleaned up indents, eol whitespaces, and 80 column limits. 13. Added Ron Mercer to Maintainers list. Looking forward to any and all feedback. Regards, Ron Mercer Qlogic Corporation - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
