Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects]

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From: Hans de Goede
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007 - 11:28 pm

Greg KH wrote:
 > Originally, I set up this project to work with different companies and
 > help them out with creating new drivers.  But that work isn't happening
 > fast enough to keep up with the number of developers who have signed up
 > for this project (310 right now!)
 >
 > So, what do people think?  Should we take these projects on, to help
 > existing projects get their code cleaned up and into the main tree?
 >

Yes! This way we get better hardware support for distro's where the kernel 
maintainers don't want to go through the pain of patching all these drivers in 
(Fedora for example) and less work (and thus more time for bug fixing) for 
distros which do patch them all in (ubuntu).

Good list!


Actually some RedHat developers are (successfully AFAIK) working on getting 
lirc upstream.

Here are some more for the list:
	uvc usb video class	Someone from suse is working on getting
				this merged
	zaptel (for asterisk)	http://ftp.digium.com/pub/telephony/firmware/releases/
	gspca			http://mxhaard.free.fr/


Regards,

Hans

p.s.

We really should put the list on the wiki.

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Larger projects, Greg KH, (Thu Oct 18, 2:47 pm)
Re: Larger projects, Felipe Balbi, (Thu Oct 18, 3:13 pm)
Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Greg KH, (Thu Oct 18, 3:40 pm)
Re: Larger projects, Greg KH, (Thu Oct 18, 3:46 pm)
Re: Larger projects, Felipe Balbi, (Thu Oct 18, 4:02 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Alex Deucher, (Thu Oct 18, 4:05 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Felipe Balbi, (Thu Oct 18, 4:12 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], John W. Linville, (Thu Oct 18, 5:03 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Tabish Mustufa, (Thu Oct 18, 5:43 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Li YanBo, (Thu Oct 18, 6:32 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Borislav Petkov, (Thu Oct 18, 9:05 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Hans de Goede, (Thu Oct 18, 11:28 pm)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Benoit Donnette, (Fri Oct 19, 12:28 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Manu Abraham, (Fri Oct 19, 12:40 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Pierre Ossman, (Fri Oct 19, 1:09 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Tomasz Chmielewski, (Fri Oct 19, 1:30 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Manu Abraham, (Fri Oct 19, 5:16 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Matthias Urlichs, (Fri Oct 19, 6:05 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Luis R. Rodriguez, (Fri Oct 19, 7:24 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Pierre Ossman, (Fri Oct 19, 8:23 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Baruch Even, (Fri Oct 19, 10:14 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Tomasz Chmielewski, (Fri Oct 19, 11:02 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers [was Re: Larger projects], Tomasz Chmielewski, (Sat Oct 20, 1:47 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers, Clemens Ladisch, (Mon Oct 22, 12:32 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers, Matthias Urlichs, (Mon Oct 22, 12:51 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers, Christoph Bartelmus, (Mon Oct 22, 10:07 am)
Re: Out of tree drivers, Greg KH, (Wed Oct 24, 11:22 pm)