Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161180AbXBAFxc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:53:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161191AbXBAFxc (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:53:32 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:43402 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161180AbXBAFxb (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:53:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:52:18 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Bob Copeland Cc: Jan Engelhardt , David Hollis , Jeff Garzik , Trent Waddington , Dave Airlie , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Message-ID: <20070201055218.GF5979@kroah.com> References: <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 1499 Lines: 35 On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:37:58PM -0500, Bob Copeland wrote: > >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? I don't really want to create yet-another-mailing list for something like this. So far I've just been taking down people's names and email addresses and a short description of what types of drivers they would like to work on. We already have a nice list of people willing to help out. Anyone else is welcome to email me if they wish to join in. 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/