Hi!
> >What's so hard about submitting a 200 line patch to LKML?
>
> that's what i was wondering about ;D
> it's not the first time, that i see nice features not being submitted to lkml.
>
> anyway - pavel (thanks btw!) just pointed me to some param "mem=exactmap" :
>
> >I think functionality
Hi!
What's so hard about submitting a 200 line patch to LKML?
that's what i was wondering about ;D
it's not the first time, that i see nice features not being submitted to lkml.
anyway - pavel (thanks btw!) just pointed me to some param mem=exactmap :
I think functionality is there in
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author
doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being
used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is
uot;noisy" here, but I think BadRAM is a
great feature and Linux could really benefit from that.
regards
Roland K.
Sysadmin
List: linux-kernel
Subject:Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
From: devzero () web ! de
Date: 2007-02-04 21:37:33
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is a
great feature and Linux could really benefit from that.
regards
Roland K.
Sysadmin
List: linux-kernel
Subject:Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
From: devzero () web ! de
Date: 2007-02-04 21:37:33
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First off
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems, that BadRAM is not being maintained very actively and the original author
doesn`t seem to have the time pushing it into mainline, but i know it's actively being
used by more then just a handful of people. Unfortunately there is no
t;
> Sorry for being a little bit "noisy" here, but I think BadRAM is a great
feature and Linux could really benefit from that.
>
> regards
> Roland K.
> Sysadmin
>
>
> List: linux-kernel
> Subject:Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
> From:
that.
regards
Roland K.
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List: linux-kernel
Subject:Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
From: devzero () web ! de
Date: 2007-02-04 21:37:33
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First off, compliments to this announcement, I liked it very much
Hi!
> > 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
Hi!
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
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:12:05AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>
> As I'm not an expert in any kind of device, so I would like to join
> for any device which its type has not been assigned to any person yet
> (wild card?). Also, I would code for small LCDs.
Thanks, I've added you to the list.
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:03:58AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I can write ATA drivers for most hardware in a few days given 1.
> actually useful datasheet 2. hardware at hand 3. an ENGINEER to talk to
> when I get stuck. So, sign me up.
Thanks, I'll add you to the list.
> It will be nice to
Eric Sandeen wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Eric Sandeen wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Roland Dreier wrote:
And I seem to recall there's more SATA chipset documentation than Jeff
Garzik has time to implement support for.
I seriously doubt you can come up with even a single concrete example here.
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:26PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> Yep, still floppies are useful. Example, when we buy a new device
> (driver) with a floppy (sometimes by manufacturer). Plus, from the
> customer (not user) POV, what's wrong in spending another $10 for a
> FDD in a typical $1000 PC?
On 2/7/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>
> > > I have a Cisco USB webcam that supposedly conforms to the "USB Video
> > > Device Class", but nothing happens when I plug it into my Linux box.
> > > I assume the device class is specified as part of the USB spec...
> >
> > Are you sure? That spec just came out not so long ago and I
I have a Cisco USB webcam that supposedly conforms to the USB Video
Device Class, but nothing happens when I plug it into my Linux box.
I assume the device class is specified as part of the USB spec...
Are you sure? That spec just came out not so long ago and I haven't
seen
On 2/7/07, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:03:26PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
Yep, still floppies are useful. Example, when we buy a new device
(driver) with a floppy (sometimes by manufacturer). Plus, from the
customer (not user) POV, what's wrong in spending another $10 for a
FDD in a typical $1000 PC? Makes
Eric Sandeen wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Eric Sandeen wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Roland Dreier wrote:
And I seem to recall there's more SATA chipset documentation than Jeff
Garzik has time to implement support for.
I seriously doubt you can come up with even a single concrete example here.
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:03:58AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
I can write ATA drivers for most hardware in a few days given 1.
actually useful datasheet 2. hardware at hand 3. an ENGINEER to talk to
when I get stuck. So, sign me up.
Thanks, I'll add you to the list.
It will be nice to have
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:12:05AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
As I'm not an expert in any kind of device, so I would like to join
for any device which its type has not been assigned to any person yet
(wild card?). Also, I would code for small LCDs.
Thanks, I've added you to the list.
I'll
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all
On 2/6/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:29:03PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that
> From: Akemi Yagi
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:44 -0800
[]
>> I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do use
>> Floppy on Linux ;-)
>
> So, I am not the
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago.
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:29:03PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> On 2/6/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
> >> the way you hope.
> >>
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:05:10PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> >Just let me know what types of devices you are interested in working on.
>
> I would love to work on PC as well as Embedded stuff (Power, Intel, and
> ARM).
> Devices types - Audio/Video (this needs special attention for the
> Linux
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 11:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote:
>>On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>>
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote:
>On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
>
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
kernel
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:07:50PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel
> On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
> >of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
Yep, would love to dive into this oceanin available mode ;-)
> I would like to participate;
On 2/6/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
> the way you hope.
>
> I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
> any
On 2/6/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
the way you hope.
I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
any SD, MMC or
On 2/4/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
Yep, would love to dive into this oceanin available mode ;-)
I would like to participate; however,
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:07:50PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago.
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
kernel
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
that floppy.c is?
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 11:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 08:37, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:05:10PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
Just let me know what types of devices you are interested in working on.
I would love to work on PC as well as Embedded stuff (Power, Intel, and
ARM).
Devices types - Audio/Video (this needs special attention for the
Linux
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:29:03PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
On 2/6/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
the way you hope.
I'd also like to
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote:
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually
From: Akemi Yagi
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:44 -0800
[]
I don't think time has come for that yet, still millions of people do use
Floppy on Linux ;-)
So, I am not the only person on earth who still makes sure
On 2/6/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:29:03PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
On 2/6/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
> the way you hope.
>
> I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
> any SD, MMC or SDIO requests, feel free to pass
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Greg KH napsal(a):
> >On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> >>On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
> >>>of devices you wish
Greg KH napsal(a):
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
I would like to
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
> > that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
> > kernel development never
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
> >of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> >
>
>
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On 2/4/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
thanks,
greg k-h
I would like to
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
kernel development never to be
Greg KH napsal(a):
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On 2/4/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
I would like to participate;
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
Greg KH napsal(a):
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:08:32PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
On 2/4/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:59:47PM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
the way you hope.
I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
any SD, MMC or SDIO requests, feel free to pass them along
> From: devzero web.de
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
> Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:37:33 +0100
> Organization: http://freemail.web.de/
> Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/489586>
> First off, compl
First off, compliments to this announcement, I liked it very much!
Some comment regarding those "volunteers, waiting to get some real work" :)
> > OK, but why isn't your army of volunteers fixing them?
> They don't know about them, or they don't have the hardware to test?
> Seriously, let the
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or perhaps your device just needs to add some flow control to it :)
Physical processes are hard to pause. :-)
But yes, adding a 16kByte FIFO before the FT245 would have made life
so much easier for me, but unfortunately the thing that drives the
hardware
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jan 31 2007 08:34, David Hollis wrote:
Conversely, I've seen many cases of drivers that are developed by the
community, but kept out-of-kernel forever due to various reasons. Some
of them are due to the code quality and the developers not accepting the
feedback to get
On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
thanks,
greg k-h
I would like to participate; however, for people who is not at USA
(say, Europe), are
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
the way you hope.
I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
any SD, MMC or SDIO requests, feel free to pass them along to me. I am
not a big fan of debug-by-email though, so I'd prefer
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:04:58AM -0800, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So how can an individual like me having ardor, contribute in Free
> driver development? What is the eligibility criteria and process for
> contributing in this activity?
>
> In brief, I come with background of developing,
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Why would a userspace driver not work out for this. We already can
> > saturate the USB bus with a userspace program
>
> That is unfortunately not quite true. I have a (unfortunately
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why would a userspace driver not work out for this. We already can
> saturate the USB bus with a userspace program
That is unfortunately not quite true. I have a (unfortunately
proprietary) driver for a USB device that simply cannot be implemented
in
On Sunday 04 February 2007 07:26, Larry Finger wrote:
> What is true is that none of the OFDM rates work
> because of some unknown bug, probably in initialization. As a result, we are
> limited to a maximum
> data rate of 11Mbs, but it is still running in 802.11g mode!
That's also not true for
On Sunday 04 February 2007 07:26, Larry Finger wrote:
What is true is that none of the OFDM rates work
because of some unknown bug, probably in initialization. As a result, we are
limited to a maximum
data rate of 11Mbs, but it is still running in 802.11g mode!
That's also not true for me.
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why would a userspace driver not work out for this. We already can
saturate the USB bus with a userspace program
That is unfortunately not quite true. I have a (unfortunately
proprietary) driver for a USB device that simply cannot be implemented
in
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:29:13PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why would a userspace driver not work out for this. We already can
saturate the USB bus with a userspace program
That is unfortunately not quite true. I have a (unfortunately
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:04:58AM -0800, Parav Pandit wrote:
Hi,
So how can an individual like me having ardor, contribute in Free
driver development? What is the eligibility criteria and process for
contributing in this activity?
In brief, I come with background of developing,
Hi Greg,
Although I am a bit of a cynic, I really hope that this endeavor works
the way you hope.
I'd also like to offer my services to this quest of yours. If you get
any SD, MMC or SDIO requests, feel free to pass them along to me. I am
not a big fan of debug-by-email though, so I'd prefer
On 2/4/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types
of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.)
thanks,
greg k-h
I would like to participate; however, for people who is not at USA
(say, Europe), are
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Jan 31 2007 08:34, David Hollis wrote:
Conversely, I've seen many cases of drivers that are developed by the
community, but kept out-of-kernel forever due to various reasons. Some
of them are due to the code quality and the developers not accepting the
feedback to get
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or perhaps your device just needs to add some flow control to it :)
Physical processes are hard to pause. :-)
But yes, adding a 16kByte FIFO before the FT245 would have made life
so much easier for me, but unfortunately the thing that drives the
hardware
First off, compliments to this announcement, I liked it very much!
Some comment regarding those volunteers, waiting to get some real work :)
OK, but why isn't your army of volunteers fixing them?
They don't know about them, or they don't have the hardware to test?
Seriously, let the
From: devzero web.de
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:37:33 +0100
Organization: http://freemail.web.de/
Archived-At: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/489586
First off, compliments to this announcement, I liked
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:45PM EST, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
>> I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the
>> bcm43xx-dev mailing list.
I came into this discussion late as I only read LKML in summary form, but
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:45PM EST, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the
bcm43xx-dev mailing list.
I came into this discussion late as I only read LKML in summary form, but I
Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 2/2/07, Jan Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pekka, it would be better if you could sort out most of the
basic issues with lirc directly with the developers of lirc
and then prepare a complete patch series and post that to
lkml. Incrementally adding one driver after
On 2/2/07, Jan Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pekka, it would be better if you could sort out most of the
basic issues with lirc directly with the developers of lirc
and then prepare a complete patch series and post that to
lkml. Incrementally adding one driver after another. Posting
patches
Pekka J Enberg wrote:
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 02 Feb 2007 05:54:00 +0100, Christoph Bartelmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just made clear that I don't have the time to do the merging of LIRC
drivers to the kernel myself. In fact a lot of work still needs to be
done before
On 2/2/07, Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...]
drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.c | 102 -
^^
I may be mistaken, but the lirc_atiusb module looks redondant with
the driver
On 2/2/07, Pekka J Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
drivers/lirc_atiusb/lirc_atiusb.c | 102 -
^^
I may be mistaken, but the lirc_atiusb module looks redondant with
the driver already
Pekka J Enberg wrote:
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02 Feb 2007 05:54:00 +0100, Christoph Bartelmus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just made clear that I don't have the time to do the merging of LIRC
drivers to the kernel myself. In fact a lot of work still needs to be
done before LIRC
On 2/2/07, Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pekka, it would be better if you could sort out most of the
basic issues with lirc directly with the developers of lirc
and then prepare a complete patch series and post that to
lkml. Incrementally adding one driver after another. Posting
patches
Pekka Enberg wrote:
On 2/2/07, Jan Dittmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pekka, it would be better if you could sort out most of the
basic issues with lirc directly with the developers of lirc
and then prepare a complete patch series and post that to
lkml. Incrementally adding one driver after
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:20:06 +0100 Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:06:32PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> I'd really love if the same offer was extended to GPL out-of-tree
>> driver trees.
>
> This kind of offer has _always_ been there for out-of-tree GPL
> drivers. I have contacted
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:45:06AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the
> > bcm43xx-dev mailing list.
>
> Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom settings, since we had to
On 2/1/07, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sometimes I might be. At least on the days I have to deal with problems
in Windows (it's not even my machine, so I don't get to pick what it
runs all the time. :) I haven't had particularly much luck getting a
stable wireless going on
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 3. Vendor driver is rather close to the generic one being in the kernel,
>>so maybe it's better to improve generic one instead of adding yet
>>another driver to the tree.
>
> Firstly can you post a patch which adds the relevant identifiers to the
>
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:12:22PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
> >> that floppy.c is? Do you
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Nah, why do you think it will screw up the eeprom?
> Did you try to completely power off the machine before rebooting
> into windows?
No at the time I don't think I powered it off, and I suspect that is
probably what went wrong.
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 23:23, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > You mean the bcm43xx wireless driver that's been upstream for months?
>
> And seems to do 802.11b only and screw up the eeprom settings so that
> the windows driver gets
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:59:03PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> I can't remember that kind of corruption ever being reported to the
> bcm43xx-dev mailing list.
Well I assumed it messed up the eeprom settings, since we had to go into
the advanced driver settings and change it from 802.11b only back
> 3. Vendor driver is rather close to the generic one being in the kernel,
>so maybe it's better to improve generic one instead of adding yet
>another driver to the tree.
Firstly can you post a patch which adds the relevant identifiers to the
current pcmcia serial driver so that 115,200
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
>> Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [...]
>> >> And there are plenty of documented devices that no one cares enough
>> >> about to submit a driver for.
>> >
>> > Any specific examples? I
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