On 1/31/07, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:13:40AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:10:20AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:45:50AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >...
> > > 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.
> >...
>
> Wrinting a driver for shiny new hardware is cool.
>
> But understanding and maintaining an already existing driver and working
> on bug reports for this driver is something not-so-cool that would be
> required in many areas of the kernel.
>
> Would someone from your long list of people e.g. be willing to maintain
> drivers/block/floppy.c ?
What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair
that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from
kernel development never to be seen again?
:)
Seriously, if you need help with something like this, bring it up on the
kernel-janitors list, there are lots of people there that are willing to
help out with stuff like long-term maintenance and bug fixing but don't
know where to start.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org
:)
Bart
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