On 08/27/2018 08:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:20:24 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018, Andrew Lunn wrote:
i ask since, in my testing, when the interface should have been
up, the attribute file "operstate" for that interface showed
"unknown", and i wondered how worried i should be about that.
Hi Robert
You should probably post the driver for review. A well written
driver should not even need to care about any of this. phylib and
the netdev driver code does all the work. It only gets interesting
when you don't have a PHY, e.g. a stacked device, like bonding, or a
virtual device like tun/tap.
i wish, but i'm on contract, and proprietary, and NDA and all that.
so i am reduced to crawling through the code, trying to figure out
what is misconfigured that is causing all this grief.
rday
So you expect FOSS developers to help you with proprietary licensed
driver. Good Luck with that.
sorry, i'm sure this will all be released upon production, just not
while it's in the midst of development.
"released upon production" means usually:
Oh, we put that driver in a tar-ball on a CD that's shipped with the
product and which will get no further visibility nor (security) maintenance.
Robert, please tell your manager that creating a driver is no rocket
science and also brings no "costumer differentiation" which needs to be
covered under NDA.
Posting drivers and bring it into mainline Linux heavily increases the
quality due to the review process and all the people that are willing to
help you to get better. At the end your driver gets long-term
maintenance and other people can benefit from it - as your boss is
getting benefit from using Linux right now.
When something is "released upon production" it will not be in a quality
that it could go into the kernel - and no one will have the
time/money/ambition to spend effort on it then. You have just produced
one of the numerous dead out-of-tree drivers. That would be just sad.
Best regards,
Oliver
