Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
I want to contact with the author of linux kernel. Anybody knows how to contact with them? Our leader hope put our own driver into linux kernel. I am not sure whether it was permitted. So, I need to contact with the authors of linux kernel. If you know how to do it, please tell me. Thanks!! Yiping Chen - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
Hmmm is he sure he knows what linux is...? I dunno whether he has understood the concept right, maybe he'll post a WDM driver ;-) -mirabilos -- EA F0 FF 00 F0 #$@%CARRIER LOST - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:06:24PM -, mirabilos wrote: > Hmmm is he sure he knows what linux is...? > I dunno whether he has understood the concept right, > maybe he'll post a WDM driver ;-) > > -mirabilos Hey, come on, this is a legitimate question. It's been a bit "uninformed", yes, but that's not really an excuse for making such comments ;-) Furthermore you posted this with a Windoze client (outlock), so it's even less of an excuse :) To the original poster: I'm not really authoritative on driver submission, but I'd read the file /usr/src/linux/SubmittingDrivers for info on how to do that, if I were you. New VIA drivers are very good for Linux anyway ! :-) (thanks !) Andreas Mohr - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
On Thu, 3 May 2001, mirabilos wrote: > Hmmm is he sure he knows what linux is...? > I dunno whether he has understood the concept right, > maybe he'll post a WDM driver ;-) you complain about wasting bandwidth and you just wasted bandwidth making an idiotic comment about a perfectly fine question? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Project Lead Don't drink and derive." --Unknown http://wm.themes.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] = - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:06:24PM -, mirabilos wrote: > Hmmm is he sure he knows what linux is...? > I dunno whether he has understood the concept right, > maybe he'll post a WDM driver ;-) Well, what is your answer? How do you submit your own driver? --William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 8 CPUs, Linux, Python, LaTeX, vim, mutt - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to contact with the author of linux kernel. > Anybody knows how to contact with them? > Our leader hope put our own driver into linux kernel. I am not sure whether > it was permitted. > So, I need to contact with the authors of linux kernel. > If you know how to do it, please tell me. Hi Yiping, the linux kernel community is happy to accept drivers from Via! It's easiest if Via agrees to license the source code for the driver under the GPL (see http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html ) If that's ok, then just put the source code up as a .tar file on a web or ftp server, and send an email to the linux-kernel mailing list explaining where it is and how to use it. See also http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/SubmittingDrivers.html Thanks, Dan - 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/
Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:46:13PM +0800, Yiping Chen wrote: > I want to contact with the author of linux kernel. > Anybody knows how to contact with them? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" list is quite good way for that. > Our leader hope put our own driver into linux kernel. > I am not sure whether it was permitted. It is even encouraged. As has been mentioned here before, each Linux kernel source tarball (at least 2.4.* series) has file: Documentation/SubmittingDrivers which describes the method. Of course we (the fuzzy thing called "user community") would prefer to have nice sourcecode with lots of comments telling why something is done in a way it is done, especially when it is a matter of poking some lowlevel things in the hardware. We see also highly obscured driver(s) appearing from various vendors, which support some single spot revision(s) of kernel(s). This includes binary-only drivers... While vendors may have reasons not to publish some details of how to drive their hardware, usually it only makes their hardware less attractive for Linux users when the drivers are limited to i386 architecture and only some very few kernels by given vendors. While Linux kernels with even second number (2.4.* as an example) will TRY TO maintain internal API consistent, even down to BINARY format, that might not always be so. Especially there exists a radical difference in between multiprocesor kernels (SMP), and uniprocessor kernels. So radical that they are binary incompatible. (This is configuration option before compiling the kernel.)YOU (driver author) should always write SMP safe code with spinlocks protecting access to codepaths/data-areas needing consistent serialized access. Compilation will optimize away the spinlocks in uniprocessor setups. A well written driver is supplied in source, and is easily readable by other people who need to go over the entire kernel for some subtle detail changes over the next development phases (such has happened before, and will likely happen again.) A well written driver will very likely work at hardware with different endianity than i386 architecture of PCs -- for example PowerPC machines. (Of course core-logic drivers don't need to work anything but i386 PC, but PCI interfaced peripheral gizmo can be used anywhere.) > So, I need to contact with the authors of linux kernel. > If you know how to do it, please tell me. > Thanks!! > Yiping Chen /Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
