From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754050Ab1J0CR0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:26 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:35087 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077Ab1J0CRZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:17:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20111026.221719.2216112919297458522.davem@davemloft.net> To: kernel@teksavvy.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: asix usb network driver: nfg From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> References: <4EA89972.5060101@teksavvy.com> <20111026.194045.2019668159403582571.davem@davemloft.net> <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mark Lord Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:23:15 -0400 > Any strong advance objections to replacing the in-kernel version > with a (fixed) vendor open source version? It need to meet the coding etc. standards for inclusion, last time I looked at it their driver indeed need a bit of cleaning up. It's a sad situation, they started with the upstream driver and just hacked on it however they pleased in their private copy. So now we have this huge divergance and no effort on their part to rectify things.