Re: IP1000 gigabit nic driver

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David Gómez <[email protected]> :
[...]
> 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 [email protected] (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
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