From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161281AbXBAB7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:59:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161280AbXBAB7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:59:33 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:32913 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161281AbXBAB7d (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:59:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:58:24 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Trent Waddington Cc: Theodore Tso , Nicolas Mailhot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070201015824.GA1414@kroah.com> References: <32793.192.54.193.51.1170248792.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> <20070131201258.GB15128@kroah.com> <20070131230014.GD20514@thunk.org> <20070131234450.GB32078@kroah.com> <3d57814d0701311607x73a418b4t14d095e92f7a8230@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d57814d0701311607x73a418b4t14d095e92f7a8230@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:07:53AM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > On 2/1/07, Greg KH wrote: > >No, I'm going by Linus's rule here, if a person doesn't want their code > >in the kernel tree, then I'm not going to forcefully put it there. > >That's just being rude. > > Makes sense when you put it that way. However, perhaps an offer to > take over the maintenance of the driver when incorporating it into the > kernel tree would be welcomed more readily by some people than just > "so when ya gunna merge?" style badgering. You would be supprised, not all people welcome this. Believe me, I've tried... thanks, greg k-h