Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161124AbXBAFru (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:47:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161149AbXBAFru (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:47:50 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:42981 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161124AbXBAFrt (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:47:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:46:44 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Sergei Organov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070201054644.GD5979@kroah.com> References: <20070130012904.GA9617@kroah.com> <20070130191020.GF20642@kroah.com> <87fy9r2ixc.fsf@javad.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87fy9r2ixc.fsf@javad.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 31 On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote: > Greg KH 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: > > > > 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 - 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/