Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756294AbYJ3AiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:38:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753718AbYJ3Ahz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:55 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.226]:35914 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbYJ3Ahz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=gv7E5ng6kuUODeywBzss0c2fIkBNRVw8cKN9xH26qBF+g/jV8ArLVtstUb0UdmnLPP szqOOaN7PIRRcMzPt8ANxWj870zkRW36a3A0iq7ZldjUO65Oj22KPDfiH28abRMujbLd NDIZ3AI4Gy7CxntQPKPiJjPhThl3KNuFVzZNk= Message-ID: <3aaafc130810291737i41716bd2r767150b47239b0a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:37:54 -0400 From: "J.R. Mauro" To: "Moritz Muehlenhoff" Subject: Re: staging: me4000 and relation to other data acquisition devices Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg KH" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081028154918.GA5630@mediacenter> <20081028163456.GA4278@suse.de> <20081028103337.a021e85d.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20081028181402.GB4873@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2626 Lines: 80 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> Of course, if someone doesn't want their code in the staging tree, I >> will not add it, that's just being "nice". >> >> As for what I will not put into staging, right now I'm sticking with >> drivers only, no filesystems (people have asked already). I don't think >> we have seen any drivers that I will not put into the staging tree yet. > > Hi Greg, > Great effort with staging, thanks a lot! > > I've had a look at the out-of-tree kernel drivers currently present > in Debian, maybe you want to merge some into staging. The Debian > overview pages contain download links (the orig.tar.gz files): > > Acer hotkey driver: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/acerhk.html > http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/ > > Synaptics cPad: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cpad-kernel.html > http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/cPad/index.shtml > > 3Dfx driver: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/device3dfx.html > http://glide.sourceforge.net/ > > et131x Ethernet Controller: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/et131x.html > http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x/ This driver (or a driver for the same hardware) is in staging already. > > GPIB (IEEE 488) drivers: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpib.html > http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/ > > LEDs driver of PCEngines ALIX 2/3 boards: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/leds-alix.html > https://dev.openwrt.org/ > > Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mga-vid.html > http://attila.kinali.ch/mga/ > > ov51x-jpeg driver: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ov51x-jpeg.html > http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page > > tp_smapi kernel modules: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tp-smapi.html > http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ > > Voicetronix telephony hardware: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vpb-driver.html > http://www.voicetronix.com.au/ > > Cheers, > Moritz > > -- > 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/ > Greg, If you're interested in having the above drivers get into staging and need someone to email the developers about it, I humbly volunteer. ~J.R. -- 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/