linux-kernel - Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:46:44 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sergei Organov <osv@...ad.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:
> [...]
> >> And there are plenty of documented devices that no one cares enough
> >> about to submit a driver for.
> >
> > Any specific examples?  I have a long list of people who wish to write
> > new drivers but just don't know which hardware is not yet supported.
> 
> Maybe not entirely a new driver, as there already exist out-of-kernel
> vendor GPL driver, but if somebody is willing to resolve the issue
> described here:
> 
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.serial/1221>
> 
> please contact me, and I'll be willing to help in testing as I have the
> hardware.

Do you have a pointer to the driver source anywhere?

I suggest just posting it as a patch to the tree as documented in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and seeing how that goes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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