IBM PowerPC Virtual Ethernet Driver

Here's a patch that adds the inter-partition Virtual Ethernet driver for newer IBM iSeries and pSeries systems:

http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/ppc64/ibmveth.patch

The patch applies against the 2.4.25-pre6 tree...

Jeff, can you formally add this driver to 2.4?... I'm waiting for some ppc64 architectural addition to send out the driver for 2.6...

Comments and suggestions are always welcome...

Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center

Usually patches are subitted inline to ease review..

I think we shouldn't accept new drivers in 2.4 anymore unless they're already in 2.6

That was my original intention, however section 4, question 1 in the FAQ states:
"If your patch is on the large size (say larger than 500 lines) consider posting a URL pointing to the patch along with the patch description, instead of the whole patch." This patch was 1300+ lines.

Sure, it makes sense... I just wanted to get this driver out since the 2.4 tree has some architectural features that 2.6 doesn't have yet... I'm not sure how those features made it to 2.4 before 2.6 though!...

Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center

The architectural dependency is queued for 2.6 and in 2.4, so I'm OK with it.

Jeff