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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:46:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070201054644.GD5979@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fy9r2ixc.fsf@javad.com>

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> [...]
> >> And there are plenty of documented devices that no one cares enough
> >> about to submit a driver for.
> >
> > Any specific examples?  I have a long list of people who wish to write
> > new drivers but just don't know which hardware is not yet supported.
> 
> Maybe not entirely a new driver, as there already exist out-of-kernel
> vendor GPL driver, but if somebody is willing to resolve the issue
> described here:
> 
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.serial/1221>
> 
> please contact me, and I'll be willing to help in testing as I have the
> hardware.

Do you have a pointer to the driver source anywhere?

I suggest just posting it as a patch to the tree as documented in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and seeing how that goes.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-01  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 182+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-30  1:29 Free Linux Driver Development! Greg KH
2007-01-30  2:19 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-30  2:23   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30  7:33 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-01-30 19:15   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:42   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-01-30 10:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-30 19:14   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:31     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-30 19:46       ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:23       ` Diego Calleja
2007-01-30 20:39         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 21:13         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-01-31 21:56           ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-31 22:04             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-01-30 13:45 ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-30 19:12   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:40     ` Florian Weimer
2007-01-30 19:47       ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 17:30 ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 19:11   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 22:21     ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 19:33   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-30 19:55     ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 17:45 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 17:55   ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-30 18:20   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 18:11     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-30 19:02     ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 19:36       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 19:10   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 19:29     ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 19:46       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 21:38         ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 21:47           ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 22:00             ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:12               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:19                 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:39                   ` John W. Linville
2007-01-30 22:23                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 13:59                   ` Erik Mouw
2007-02-01 14:45                     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 22:39                       ` Erik Mouw
2007-02-01 15:46                   ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-01 16:42                     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-01 17:48                       ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-01-30 22:14               ` Dave Airlie
2007-01-30 22:24                 ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-30 22:41                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 13:34                     ` David Hollis
2007-01-31 17:56                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:37                         ` Bob Copeland
2007-02-01  5:52                           ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 20:54                         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-31 17:50               ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 17:55                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 17:58                 ` alan
2007-01-31 18:29                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 19:17                     ` alan
2007-01-30 22:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:15             ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:01               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:19         ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-01-30 22:42           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31  4:02             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-01-31 12:49               ` Alan
2007-01-31 18:37                 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2007-01-30 23:03           ` Alan
2007-01-31 17:03         ` Eric Sandeen
2007-01-31 17:07           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 17:09             ` Eric Sandeen
2007-02-07 14:03               ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-07 18:40                 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 17:28           ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:54       ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 21:46         ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 22:27           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-30 22:34           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 22:50             ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:05               ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 23:09               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-30 23:29                 ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-30 23:45                   ` Manu Abraham
2007-01-31  0:16                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31  0:46                     ` Greg KH
2007-01-31  1:07                     ` Roland Dreier
2007-01-31  1:30                       ` Greg KH
2007-02-07 10:30           ` Laurent Pinchart
2007-01-30 22:43       ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:52     ` Diego Calleja
2007-01-30 20:11       ` Greg KH
2007-01-31  1:13     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-31  1:19       ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31  2:14         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-31  1:24       ` Greg KH
2007-01-31  2:11         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-01-31  2:14         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-02-05  9:49           ` Stefan Seyfried
2007-02-06 13:37             ` Sunil Naidu
2007-02-06 14:57               ` Dave Jones
2007-02-06 16:30               ` Gene Heskett
2007-02-06 16:36                 ` Gene Heskett
2007-02-06 21:14               ` Akemi Yagi
2007-02-06 22:15                 ` floppy (Re: Free Linux Driver Development!, OT) Oleg Verych
2007-02-07 13:33                 ` Free Linux Driver Development! Sunil Naidu
2007-02-07 13:50                   ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-08  0:43                 ` David Lang
2007-02-06 15:12             ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-06 16:11               ` Stefan Seyfried
2007-01-31 10:08         ` Rewriting floppy.c was " Andi Kleen
2007-01-31  9:20           ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-31  9:32             ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31  9:34               ` Jesper Juhl
2007-01-31 16:18           ` Martin Seidl
2007-01-31 17:24           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-31 18:24             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 18:58               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-31 19:20                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 21:46               ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-02-01 13:12           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-01 13:22             ` Jesper Juhl
2007-02-01 17:13             ` Al Viro
2007-01-31 17:41     ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-01  5:46       ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-02-01 14:22         ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-01 14:41           ` Alan
2007-01-30 19:08 ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2007-01-30 19:49   ` Greg KH
2007-01-30 20:15 ` Andrew Lyon
2007-01-30 20:30   ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 13:29     ` Christer Weinigel
2007-02-04 18:19       ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 21:33         ` Christer Weinigel
2007-01-31  2:27 ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-01-31  6:26   ` Greg KH
2007-01-31  6:48     ` Kumar Gala
2007-01-31 20:01       ` Michael K. Edwards
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2007-02-04 18:20     ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 19:08       ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-02-05  8:13         ` Greg KH
2007-02-05 15:24           ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-06  6:42             ` Greg KH
2007-02-06 13:35           ` Sunil Naidu
2007-02-06 17:01             ` Greg KH
2007-02-04 18:59 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-02-06  6:44   ` Greg KH
2007-02-06  8:29     ` Manu Abraham
2007-02-06 18:21       ` Greg KH
2007-02-07  7:12         ` Miguel Ojeda
2007-02-07 18:42           ` Greg KH
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2007-01-30 23:35           ` Robert Hancock
2007-01-31 13:06 Nicolas Mailhot
2007-01-31 19:29 ` Francois Romieu
2007-01-31 19:54   ` Auke Kok
2007-01-31 21:33     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-31 21:48       ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31 20:09   ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-01-31 20:12 ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 21:15   ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-02-01  5:50     ` Greg KH
2007-01-31 22:06   ` Dave Jones
2007-01-31 22:08     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-31 23:00   ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-31 23:04     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-01  1:08       ` Mark Lord
2007-02-01  1:39         ` Lee Revell
2007-02-01 10:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-31 23:44     ` Greg KH
2007-02-01  0:07       ` Trent Waddington
2007-02-01  1:58         ` Greg KH
2007-02-01  8:40       ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-02-01  9:03         ` Trent Waddington
2007-02-01  9:22           ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-02-01  9:34             ` Trent Waddington
2007-01-31 23:59     ` Lee Revell
2007-02-01 11:43       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-14 12:00     ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-02  4:54 Christoph Bartelmus
2007-02-04  6:26 Larry Finger
2007-02-04 10:36 ` Michael Buesch
2007-02-04 21:37 devzero
2007-02-04 23:04 ` Oleg Verych

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