From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030203AbWD0S7d (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:59:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965059AbWD0S7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:59:32 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:63156 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964947AbWD0S7b (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:59:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:56:27 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Linux-kernel Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IP1000 gigabit nic driver Message-ID: <20060427185627.GA30871@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20060427142939.GA31473@fargo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060427142939.GA31473@fargo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Gómez : [...] > Does anybody in this list know why the IP1000 driver is not > included in the kernel ? Afaik the driver has never been submitted for inclusion. At least not on netdev@vger.kernel.org (hint, hint). [...] > The card in question is: > > Sundance Technology Inc IC Plus IP1000 > > and the driver can be found in sundance web, sources URL please ? > included. I tried to contact the author but my email > bounced. > > There's no LICENSE in the source, just copyrigth > sentences in the .c files, so i'm not sure under > which license it's distributed :-?. /me goes to http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html $ unzip -c IP1000A-Linux-driver-v2.09f.zip | grep MODULE_LICENSE MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); It's a bit bloaty but it does not seem too bad (not mergeable "as is" though). Do you volunteer to test random cra^W^W carefully engineered code on your computer to help the rework/merging process ? -- Ueimor