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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:37:58 -0500
From: "Bob Copeland" <me@...copeland.com>
To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "David Hollis" <dhollis@...ehollis.com>,
"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
"Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com>,
"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>,
"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
> Putting the "codingstyle" control aside, often it's because things look
> too hackish.
Also sometimes the authors know it's hackish, or just don't expect it
to be generally useful to the world. I happen to own an out-of-tree
filesystem which I have little desire to have reviewed for mainline:
only a dozen people use it at most, and I know it would get pinged
mercilessly for using buffer heads and general insanity if it ever
made it past "use FUSE instead" (which would admittedly be a perfectly
fine response). It works though, so I keep it up to date with the VFS
changes.
I do have some interest in working on various device drivers, though.
Greg, assuming this somehow kicks off some avalanche of specs, will
there be a ML for hooking up driver writers with specs and willing
users?
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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