Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:06:03 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: atl2 network driver status |
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:02:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Hi, > > In looking for drivers to add to drivers/staging/ I ran across the atl2 > driver that is currently in the Fedora and Ubuntu kernel trees. > > This driver doesn't look to be scheduled for inclusion in the upstream > netdev git tree for submission for 2.6.28, is there any reason why it is > still out-of-the-tree? > > And, if it's not going into 2.6.28, any objection for me adding it to > the drivers/staging/ tree? If so, I need a list of reasons why it is > not merged upstream properly so far so that people know what to work on > in order to get it there.
Ok, in looking at the code, I see a list of things that probably need to be fixed up properly, but it would be nice to see what others think the reasons are :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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