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EHEA: Is there a size limit below 80K for patches?

DISCUSSION Jan-Bernd Themann 3 participants 4 messages Jun 8, 2006

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Hello,

we tried two times to send a patch set. In both cases the second (largest) patch got lost. The first one was a bit above 100k, the second one we tried was like 75K.

Any idea what might be the problem?

Thanks,
Jan-Bernd Themann

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Quoted 6 lines · Jan-Bernd Themann

Hello,

we tried two times to send a patch set. In both cases the second (largest) patch got lost. The first one was a bit above 100k, the second one we tried was like 75K.

Any idea what might be the problem?

It might be size, or tripping a spam filter.

For a new driver, do the sane thing and just post a URL.

Jeff

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well, now I'm confused...
2 People, two opinions....

Here's a URL for a complete tarball, "sharing" the download location with our other driver.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibmehcad/ehea_EHEA_0002.tgz

We're waiting for a sourceforge project now since 9 days to put out a tgz, and it looks like many other people get upset right now by their response time.

So what's the "right"/preferred way to proceed?

Christop R.

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We're currently developing a new Ethernet device driver for a 10G IBM

chip

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for System p. (ppc64)

A later version of the driver should end up in mainline kernel. How should we proceed to get first comments by the community? Either post this code as a patch to netdev or

yes

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put a full tarball on for example sourceforge?

nope.

Please read and observe: Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Section 3 of it, References, for other sources of expectations/requirements.

The -mm tree also contains Documentation/SubmitChecklist that you may find useful.

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~Randy

Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxx> wrote on 08.06.2006 13:34:36:

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Quoted 8 lines · Jan-Bernd Themann

Hello,

we tried two times to send a patch set. In both cases the second (largest) patch
got lost. The first one was a bit above 100k, the second one we tried was like 75K.

Any idea what might be the problem?

It might be size, or tripping a spam filter.

For a new driver, do the sane thing and just post a URL.

Jeff

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Quoted 8 lines · Christoph Raisch

well, now I'm confused...
2 People, two opinions....

Here's a URL for a complete tarball, "sharing" the download location with our other driver.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ibmehcad/ehea_EHEA_0002.tgz

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We're waiting for a sourceforge project now since 9 days to put out a tgz, and it looks like many other people get upset right now by their response time.

So what's the "right"/preferred way to proceed?

Patches and new drivers should always go to the mailing list...... except for the case where they are too big to be posted to the mailing list. For that special case, a URL to a patch should be posted.

Jeff