Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:58:13 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver which supercedes atl1c | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:50:10 -0800
> QCA is commiting on fixing all bugs upstream on this driver.
By implication QCA is not willing to fix bugs in and properly maintain the existing in-tree atl1c driver.
We're not going to wholesale replace an entire driver in this way, and you should know better Luis.
Please research the history of the Broadcom TG3 driver, Jeff Garzik and myself wrote a driver for Linux ignoring Broadcom's out of tree driver completely.
Several times Broadcom tried to just plunk their out-of-tree driver, however properly cleaned up, into the tree. We considerd that unacceptable and pushed back until they started instead making gradual improvements and fixes to the driver Jeff and myself wrote and had in the tree already. And they did.
We expect Qualcomm to follow this precedent, and I will push back strongly on any attempt to just replace the existing driver.
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