On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:30:14AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > From: Seth Levy <seth.levy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > This is based on the last release from PLX: > http://www.plxtech.com/files/products/net2000/software/selectiontool/RE061204-net2272-linux2.6.18.tgz > > I've managed to contact them and they've confirmed that this driver was > wholly written by PLX (Seth Levy). While they have no problem with it > being merged (and they've already licensed it as GPL), they don't have > any interest in doing so themselves as this is an old part for them. > > ADI has long had an add-on card which has this part on it, so we've been > keeping it up-to-date out of tree. But now that PLX has confirmed the > source of the driver, we can can take the next step of cleaning it up and > getting it merged. > > So here we are! I've done quite a large clean up of the driver and > attempted to address all the common issues. Hopefully in the process, > I haven't broken anything. While it seems to still work with the board > that I have access to, it is not a PCI variant. So I have not tested > any of the PCI logic myself (beyond clean compile). Perhaps someone who > actually has a card and cares can do so. > > I'll try to address further feedback, but don't expect miracles. I'm > not really familiar with the part itself, just the platform glue. > > Signed-off-by: Seth Levy <seth.levy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ash Aziz <ash.aziz@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Roy Huang <roy.huang@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> This doesn't apply to Linus's tree at the moment. Can you refresh it against linux-next and resend it? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
