I'm working with Aquantia to add a new 2.5/5 Gbps driver to the kernel. It looks like it's going to one of the biggest drivers in drivers/net/ethernet. The team that developed the driver is new to kernel development processes, but are working to make it checkpatch-clean and addressing sparse issues. Right now we're working to split the code into small chunks for review. The sequence of patches first targets basic functionality, then adding a feature at a time. Still, it's going to be a lot of work to review.
Aquantia is committed to doing the work to add this to the mainline kernel but it's clearly going to be a substantial amount of work not only for them, but for reviewers. So, my question: what can we do to make this process easy for the networking community in addition to the basics that are already under way? I welcome any and all suggestions. Thanks! -- David VL
