linux-kernel - Re: [How to upload our driver to "kernel.org"] Would you give me your advice?

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Message-ID: <20091214152720.GA16597@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:27:20 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Masa <masa.korg@...il.com>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Alejandro Riveira Fern?ndez <ariveira@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [How to upload our driver to "kernel.org"] Would you give me
	your advice?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:15:58AM +0900, Masa wrote:
> > You don't, technically speaking, upload.
> > You make a patch against a current kernel tree and mail it
> > to the relevant list. Then people will tell you what's wrong with your
> > code and how it should be improved. After you'll have fixed
> > the issues, the maintainer will take your patch and it'll be
> > incorporated into the kernel tree at kernel.org.
> 
> It is a useful information for me.
> I understood the procedure.
> 
> I think that I may take time to solve all issues.
> However, I want to give a TRY.

If you need help with this process, or with cleaning up your code to
make it acceptable, please let us on the devel@...uxdriverproject.org
list help you out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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