RE: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-20 Thread Michael Chen
Message- From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:a...@arndb.de] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:03 PM To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Allen Huang ("黃偉格"); linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; 'Michael Chen'; 'Charles'; 'Joseph Chang' Subject: Re: Davicom DM9000C driver On T

Re: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:08:00 + Arnd Bergmann wrote: > More importantly, the patch should be against the version that is > already present in the kernel as drivers/net/ethernet/davicom/dm9000.c, > which appears to be mostly the same as the version that is submitted > here. Sigh. Leave it to

Re: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 20 September 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 19 September 2012, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:58:08 +0800 > > Allen Huang (黃偉格) wrote: > > > > > I'm Allen Huang from Davicom. We are hereby opensourcing the linux > > > driver for our DM9000C. > > > > Th

Re: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 19 September 2012, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:58:08 +0800 > Allen Huang (黃偉格) wrote: > > > I'm Allen Huang from Davicom. We are hereby opensourcing the linux > > driver for our DM9000C. > > That is great, but please read the development process documentation o

Re: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:58:08 +0800 Allen Huang (黃偉格) wrote: > I'm Allen Huang from Davicom. We are hereby opensourcing the linux > driver for our DM9000C. That is great, but please read the development process documentation on how best to submit something like this. We would much rather see a

Re: Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-19 Thread Bruno Prémont
Hi Allen, [CCing netdev, keeping .c/.h source attached] On Wed, 19 September 2012 Allen Huang (黃偉格) wrote: > I'm Allen Huang from Davicom. We are hereby opensourcing the linux > driver for our DM9000C. Ah, from looking at the code DM9000C looks like it is some nerwork chip, what platforms doe

Davicom DM9000C driver

2012-09-18 Thread 黃偉格
Hi, I'm Allen Huang from Davicom. We are hereby opensourcing the linux driver for our DM9000C. We would appreciate any comments that you have on our driver and whether it is ready to go into the kernel. Please see DM9000C driver in the attachment. Best regards, Allen dm9000_KT2.6.31.c Desc