linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Message-Id: <20070131150451.070fa90f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:04:51 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:00:15 -0500 Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 12:12:58PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > This kind of offer has _always_ been there for out-of-tree GPL drivers.
> > I have contacted many different groups and driver authors over the years
> > to offer my help in trying to get their code into the mainline kernel.
> > 
> > Some take me up on the offer, others ignore it, and still others activly
> > refuse to do so, saying they want to stay out-of-the tree (lirc is one
> > of these examples...)
> 
> I think the point is that if we are offering free development effort
> to write a driver which goes into mainline, maybe we should provide
> more than "providing rules and guidelines" so that people can spend
> engineering $$$ to get the driver into mainline.   
> 
> More specifically, Dave said that it "seemed rude" to just take the
> driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with
> out-of-tree drivers like lirc is to treat the out-of-tree drivers as a
> kind of spec release, and just have someone in the community forcibly
> take the code, fix it up, and then get it merged.  Maybe it's being
> "rude", but so is not responding to requests to get it merged.


and I'm quite willing to apply Doc/CodingStyle to driver source file(s).
That's as easy as replying to an email with comments about it.

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~Randy
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