Fwd: RealTek 8139 ethernet driver

[Jonathan Larmour]

Eric Doenges wrote:
> [ I originally sent this mail to ecos-patches; about 5 Minutes
>   after hitting the 'send' button I realized I should probably
>   have sent it to ecos-devel instead, because it's not really
>   a patch, so I'm doing this now. I'm sorry for any
>   inconvinience this may cause and hope to be more intelligent
>   about using the correct mailing list in the future. ]

Actually ecos-patches is right.

> 4. The source files contain the standard eCos header which I lifted
>    from the Intel 82559 driver, even though the copyright has not
>    yet been officially assigned to RedHat. My boss has agreed to
>    OK the copyright transfer, so this should only be a matter of
>    getting the paperwork done (hopefully sometime this week).

Good!

> 5. Finally, the code most likely does not adher to the eCos coding
>    standard alluded to in the FAQ (since I couldn't find it).

"By example" ;-). Unfortunately the coding standards are in a Red Hat 
confidential document(!). I believe in future we will be looking at GNU 
coding standards for new code instead of the current established practice. 
Certainly no code written to GNU coding standards will be turned away.

Jifl
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