Josua Grawitter a écrit :
> Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 16:55:01 schrieb Jonathan Michalon:
>> Josua Grawitter a écrit :
>>> 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
>> Cool that most rules are already OK.
>> I think we would have a place in the MAINTAINERS file from kernel tree
>> (there is only one on the root directory for the whole kernel).
>> Isn't the prepare-for-kernel one aiming on kernel integration? Logically
>> this should be submitted, no?
>> Your "famous git-pull requests" are perhaps not-so-famous: I don't know
>> about what you are speaking... do you mean the code should be directly
>> grabbed from git to be integrated?
>> Anyways, are some code modifications to be submitted before the so called
>> "freeze"? Have enough tests been done to take the responsibility of kernel
>> integration tentative? We should at least wait a little for the other
>> contributors, IMHO.
>>
>> Johndecs
>>
>>
>> > I referred to this part of the "SubmittingDrivers" document:
> "Control:     In general if there is active maintainance of a driver by
>               the author then patches will be redirected to them unless
>               they are totally obvious and without need of checking.
>               If you want to be the contact and update point for the
>               driver it is a good idea to state this in the comments,
>               and include an entry in MAINTAINERS for your driver."
> 
> I think we shouldn't list ourselves as maintainers because apart from SXGA 
> there won't be much more to contribute and people submitting patches to this 
> list may have to wait years until one of us answers.

So the driver will have no update if a model fails for a small thing? If this
group stops when submitted, I don't know who would maintain this.

> 
> I don't know of anymore changes being necessary our planned. "prepare-fr-
> kernel" has been around quite some time now so I figure everyone is fine with 
> this driver being submitted.

Okay.

> 
> Submitting prepare-for-kernel as a tarball seems wrong to me because it can't 
> be build on its own. You need a full kernel-tree to compile it.

Didn't know. So next step would be addressing a mail to the list I've found and
say them to clone the git repo?

> 
> git-pull-requests:
> http://github.com/guides/pull-requests
> example: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/326

Again, I didn't know...

> 
> GWater



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