valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:54:37 +0300, alexhoppus said: > >> No, I just try to understand the process. I don't fully understand what >> is the role of independent developer in the process of submitting new >> drivers to LK. What I mean is - hardware device vendors always ship >> device driver with their products. In this case several options are >> available: >> 1.) HW vendor ships only closed-source drivers and is not interested to >> open source this work. >> 2.) HW vendor publishes device drivers to the community by himself >> 3.) HW vendor put the device driver sources to their website ready for >> downloading and building, but make no effort for integrating them to LK. > > You missed one: > > 4.) HW vendor only ships a Windows or OSX client.
And another one: 5.) vendor independent class drivers IMHO perfect for the independent developer since there will be documentation available. The USB class specs are freely available for example. Bjørn _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
