Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 201879
FutureFeature: add Agere ET131x driver to FC kernel
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:28:12 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060710 Firefox/2.0b1 Description of problem: Hi. I am having quite some difficulties getting the Agere Gigabit ethernet driver (Agere ET131x) working under Fedora Core. The only Linux distribution which I managed to easily compile and use the driver on, is Gentoo Linux 2006.0 x86_64. The driver is also reported to work under FC however. Information on the driver can be found on: http://dadams1969.googlepages.com/et131xkernelmodule Compiling the driver under Gentoo was easy, just make sure you have the current kernel source + /usr/lib stuff in place, then by unpacking the driver, applying the 3 attached patches, it can be compiled. Driver and it's patches can be found here: http://dadams1969.googlepages.com/et131x-1.2.2-3.src.tar.gz Can this driver be included in the FC kernel in the future, or can you tell me where to request this feature for the vanilla linux kernel? Best regards, Martijn Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. n/a 2. 3. Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Additional info: n/a
This needs a *lot* of work before its ready for inclusion upstream (and subsequently the Fedora kernel). Right now, the code looks more like a Windows driver than a Linux driver. The CodingStyle violations alone are almost so bad, that it'd probably be quicker to use this as a reference, and start over writing a clean driver. Additionally, it can't be included as it stands right now anyway, as it's only licensed as BSD, not dual-license GPL/BSD.