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. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/