Re: Steps to integrate new 40G Network driver to the kernel tree

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:47:12 -0700
Joyce Yu - System Software [off-list ref] wrote:

Since it is a new driver, shall I follow the "Submitting Drivers for the 
Linux Kernel" Doc? The driver is ready and passed all our QA cycles. I  
have three source base, one is for 2.6.16 and 2.6.18 (for RHL 5.X and 
SLES 10 SP3) , one is for 2.6.32 (For RHL 6.X, SLES11SP1), one for 
2.6.27 (For SLES11). Can it be integrated to the 2.6.18 and 2.6.32 tree? 
or it has to be in the latest 2.6.39 or later?

Do you want the driver to show up in 3.0 (aka 2.6.40) or next release.
For 3.0 submit patch against 3.0-rc4 for next release base the patch
against the network development tree (net-next-2.6).

The code should remove all special case code to deal with old kernel
versions. No backward compatiablity #ifdef's