Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030535AbXAaSiN (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:38:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030536AbXAaSiN (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:38:13 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:2001 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030535AbXAaSiK (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:38:10 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=g9i1TU5ocK7GyOZFTgEVYrMW5eyFG7oOCWPYbtAd210joCjyG9O5nReB+gbZzhJhfO5iHe25Ep7XXxwqCOKkGbIKCCAjygvo411ZBw+R6Ayo2yJxbXgsuarzCQtTNoLnnglhGbkW8K/l7IevcYixL3tkegzbrDVd17Q4peV7hmY= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:37:58 -0500 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Cc: "David Hollis" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Trent Waddington" , "Dave Airlie" , "Roland Dreier" , "Greg KH" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 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> <45BFA087.6020905@garzik.org> <20070130214759.GA12477@kroah.com> <21d7e9970701301414s251b584mbee85ecd6909febf@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0701301424m67d22cdbg7afc0a1dab29c152@mail.gmail.com> <45BFC99A.8040805@garzik.org> <1170250461.12914.33.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 42fcd554791298f6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 24 > Putting the "codingstyle" control aside, often it's because things look > too hackish. Also sometimes the authors know it's hackish, or just don't expect it to be generally useful to the world. I happen to own an out-of-tree filesystem which I have little desire to have reviewed for mainline: only a dozen people use it at most, and I know it would get pinged mercilessly for using buffer heads and general insanity if it ever made it past "use FUSE instead" (which would admittedly be a perfectly fine response). It works though, so I keep it up to date with the VFS changes. I do have some interest in working on various device drivers, though. Greg, assuming this somehow kicks off some avalanche of specs, will there be a ML for hooking up driver writers with specs and willing users? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com - 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/