Hi Greg,
> > 1. Could you write a little bit more about the staging to mainline
> > driver roadmap? I'm interested in how it's decided wheather the
> > driver is *ready*.
>
> That's simple, it just needs to meet the normal kernel coding
> guidelines and acceptance rules. Those are documented very well in
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.
> Also, a review of the proper subsystem maintainer is needed.
>
> Some drivers have already made the move over, the benet network driver
> did it just this week.
>
> > 2. Lets assume I found some kernel driver out-there that have its
> > users here and there and is more or less (rather less) maintained.
> > Let's assume it supports some obscure yet cool hardware. Making it
> > work on various distros with various kernels is a pain and takes
> > time. What can we do to see it included in staging and maybe
> > promoted to mainline some day? Lets assume the author is not
> > responsive, doesn't care or is not interested anymore and the
> > driver is under GPL.
>
> If you are willing to help out with this, and you have asked the
> author if they object to adding it, with no response, I have no
> problem adding it to the staging tree. This has happened many times
> already with the code in drivers/staging/ if you look at it.
>
> Hope this helps,
It does. Thanks,
Mariusz
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