Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 13:05:16 schrieb Jonathan Michalon:
> Jonathan Michalon a écrit :
> > GWater a écrit :
> >> 2. I don't know LKML procedure.
> >
> > Neither do I but it's time to learn. I'll read some doc about that
> > tomorrow.
>
> I've a little investigated. This is what I've noticed.
>
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
> is a good basis, I don't know in which state is your source code, but it
> seems to have to be checked against these requirements.
>
> The MAINTAINERS file in the kernel tree:
> 2.      Try to release a few ALPHA test versions to the net. Announce
>         them onto the kernel channel and await results. This is especially
>         important for device drivers, because often that's the only way
>         you will find things like the fact version 3 firmware needs
>         a magic fix you didn't know about, or some clown changed the
>         chips on a board and not its name.  (Don't laugh!  Look at the
>         SMC etherpower for that.)
>
> I think we should make a tarball ready-to-test, no?
> Next, there is no maintainer for the whole media/video stuff but a mailing
> list: [email protected]
> This list may IMHO be used to announce the ALPHA presented before.
> After mailing to the list, we may be driven by people knowing exactly what
> to do in the specific case of this driver.
>
> Does all this seem reasonable to you?
> What pending patches / ideas is there? If SXGA is not ready, I think this
> doesn't matter since it may be part of a latter update so there is not too
> much to release in one block.
>
> Johndescs
>
> P.S. If you think I'm too quick and going in a hurry, let me know... I just
> hope to help this being available for the whole community.
>
>
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I think most we comply with most of the things mentioned:
- Copyright and License integrity were insured from the beginning.
- coding style has been fixed
- struct usb_sn9c20x mirrors the hardware(clarity)
- we have suspend/resume
- V4L2 support
- at least x86 and x86_64 have been tested

Do we want a MAINTAINER flag for our driver?

Looking back on recent activity I don't think so.

Short: I agree.
What tarball do you want to submit - our master or our prepare-for-kernel 
branch?
What happened to the famous git-pull requests?

GWater

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