From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932310AbXAaCLV (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:11:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932333AbXAaCLU (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:11:20 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:29301 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932310AbXAaCLU (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:11:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oIgFx0/Hz9Gg6FAAxS+v2cRxeo5lv7zQ6tL29EVHo10iuzundanV8azHcxDkFMplSrqcymxWviEAIiOQA9xahZBvj5ZrnBG/XXiFXUnryRwybdQWEPsdfs3rUEGtGJuyPKfmHebhCl1SZUh3EHrPoKxD2MKQCbgjXkDBjWJ5uqQ= Message-ID: <58cb370e0701301811m101a191aif0968211e0f9c653@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:11:18 +0100 From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" To: "Greg KH" Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , "Roland Dreier" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070131012428.GA31759@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <20070131011340.GP3754@stusta.de> <20070131012428.GA31759@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/31/07, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:13:40AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:20AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:45:50AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > >... > > > > 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. > > >... > > > > Wrinting a driver for shiny new hardware is cool. > > > > But understanding and maintaining an already existing driver and working > > on bug reports for this driver is something not-so-cool that would be > > required in many areas of the kernel. > > > > Would someone from your long list of people e.g. be willing to maintain > > drivers/block/floppy.c ? > > 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 seen again? > > :) > > Seriously, if you need help with something like this, bring it up on the > kernel-janitors list, there are lots of people there that are willing to > help out with stuff like long-term maintenance and bug fixing but don't > know where to start. http://bugzilla.kernel.org :) Bart