How do I get a patch submitted?

[Al Youngwerth]

I submitted a patch to the list about 6 weeks ago that fixes a kernel panic
from the tulip driver when used with the Lite-on card. 

The problem is caused when the Lite-on chip returns a bogus packet length
and the tulip driver happily sends the huge packet length to skb_put()
causing a kernel panic. I confirmed with an engineer at Lite-on that we
should be doing a sanity check on the packet length and cutting the packet
length down to 1518 if it is over that value (he gave me the code snippet
from their windows95 driver that does the same). I've been running about
six weeks now without a crash (before I was getting a crash once every 3-4
days). I've also recieved notice from a couple of people that my patch
fixed their problem.

I was hoping to see the patch applied in .89I but I never got any response
from my e-mails. Who's maintaing this code? Did you see the patch? Does it
break every other card out there? Is this the right forum?

Thanks,


Al Youngwerth
alberty@apexxtech.com