Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754887AbXJ2Xva (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:51:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752932AbXJ2XvK (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:51:10 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:41923 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752731AbXJ2XvI (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:51:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:51:07 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Greg KH cc: Tilman Schmidt , Adrian Bunk , Simon Arlott , Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andreas Gruenbacher , Thomas Fricaccia , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , James Morris , Crispin Cowan , Giacomo Catenazzi , Alan Cox Subject: Out-of-tree modules [was: Linux Security *Module* Framework] In-Reply-To: <20071026025647.GC21408@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20071022210956.31f7bbcf@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20071023051642.GA3908@sequoia.sous-sol.org> <471E9260.6000704@goop.org> <20071023220649.5a76af82@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <55615.simon.1193226629@5ec7c279.invalid> <20071024125533.GE30533@stusta.de> <471F8AC5.9080300@simon.arlott.org.uk> <20071024223124.GI30533@stusta.de> <4721221A.1020309@imap.cc> <20071026025647.GC21408@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 29 On Oct 25 2007 19:56, Greg KH wrote: >What kind of code is not accepted into the mainline kernel tree for good >reasons? What are these reasons? What specific code are you talking >about? > >I'm trying to compile a list of all known external modules and drivers >and work to get them included in the main kernel tree to help prevent >these kinds of things. If you know of any that are not on the list at: > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers >please feel free to add them, or email me with the needed information >and I will add them to the list. quad_dsp - http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/quad_dsp/ Provides a /dev/dsp style node for legacy applications that support neither ALSA nor the AOSS wrapper nor more-than-2-channel sound. thkd - ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-jengelh/kernel/linux-2.6.23.1-ccj58/thkd.diff Workaround for Toshiba MK2003GAH hard-drive head auto-unloading after 5-15 seconds. (Ref: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/15/100 ) - 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/