Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:53:10 -0400
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: crash77a@allvantage.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Converting kernel modules from 2.4 to 2.6/Suggested new driver
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:27:16PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> You can recommend them for inclusion, but the developer or maintainer
> of them needs to either submit them or at least approve their
> submission for inclusion.

Also, the first thing to check is probably this:

> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:09:20 -0400 Kenny Bentley wrote:
> | Or since I've never done any kernel programming, I have a better idea.  
> | I want to recommend the drivers for inclusion into the official kernel 
> | tree.  The drivers were released open-source by Linuxant or the 
> | manufacturer, I don't remember which one for sure.

You'll need to double-check that.  I think Linuxant released some
free-as-in-beer drivers that were a mixture of free and proprietary
code, so it was easy to get confused on this point.

--Bruce Fields
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