Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751107AbWAJPLH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751108AbWAJPLG (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:06 -0500 Received: from a34-mta02.direcpc.com ([66.82.4.91]:7732 "EHLO a34-mta02.direcway.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbWAJPLF (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:11:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:10:38 -0500 From: Ben Collins Subject: Re: [PATCH]: How to be a kernel driver maintainer In-reply-to: <20060109192644.GA18175@elf.ucw.cz> To: Pavel Machek Cc: Linux Kernel Development , Linus Torvalds Message-id: <1136905838.5291.4.camel@grayson> Organization: Ubuntu Linux MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1136736455.24378.3.camel@grayson> <20060109192644.GA18175@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1030 Lines: 27 On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:26 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Since this discussion of getting driver authors to submit their driver > > for inclusion I started writing a document to send them. I think it's > > best included in the kernel tree. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ben Collins > > Well, nice document, but it does not really match the title. I > expected something like "how to be Jeff Garzik" and it is more "how to > get your driver into kernel and keep it there". It does not deal with > taking patches from other people, etc... I think it should go into > submitting driver howto or something like that. Guess it could be renamed "How to become a kernel driver maintainer" -- Ben Collins Developer Ubuntu Linux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/