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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:42:36 -0400
From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: staging: me4000 and relation to other data acquisition devices
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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:25:30AM -0400, J.R. Mauro wrote:
>> Ok. I emailed a few of them. The ones I omitted either didn't have a
>> clear homepage/maintainer, had already sent a patch to the kernel, or
>> explicitly stated no intentions of going into mainline.
>
> Which ones were in the last 2 categories?

The Alix driver seemed to be sent in already: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/19/279

The ov51x-jpeg driver's homepage mentions that there is a driver
already, but it doesn't do jpeg compression, since that kind of
shouldn't be done in the kernel. The out-of-tree driver does do the
compression in the kernel, but the author doesn't think it should go
into mainline. Or something like that.

>
>> Maybe you could send me the Spreadsheet O' Drivers if you need more help?
>
> Yeah, I think I'll move this to a google docs file or somehow merge it
> with the information on the linuxdriverproject.org wiki.  Give me a few
> days.

A google spreadsheet would be great for me. Maybe you could do both?

>
>> I've also been wondering: should we contact the maintainers of the big
>> distros and make them aware of staging and have them work with us to
>> get whatever out-of-tree stuff they have more centralized? I don't
>> know if it's a good idea, but it could be. And if it is, I have no
>> idea where to start.
>
> I've already looked at what the following distros include in their
> kernel package:
>        - Fedora
>        - openSUSE
>        - Ubuntu
> so I have them on my list, and is where I took a number of the existing
> staging drivers from.
>
> If you could poke around other distro's kernels (like Mandrake and any
> other you can think of) and find out what they include, that would e
> great.

Ok. I'll talk to distros not mentioned above and hopefully add
anything I find to the forthcoming spreadsheet.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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