Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > This kind of offer has _always_ been there for out-of-tree GPL drivers.
> > I have contacted many different groups and driver authors over the years
> > to offer my help in trying to get their code into the mainline kernel.
> > 
> > Some take me up on the offer, others ignore it, and still others activly
> > refuse to do so, saying they want to stay out-of-the tree (lirc is one
> > of these examples...)
> 
> I think the point is that if we are offering free development effort
> to write a driver which goes into mainline, maybe we should provide
> more than "providing rules and guidelines" so that people can spend
> engineering $$$ to get the driver into mainline.   
> 
> More specifically, Dave said that it "seemed rude" to just take the
> driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with
> out-of-tree drivers like lirc is to treat the out-of-tree drivers as a
> kind of spec release, and just have someone in the community forcibly
> take the code, fix it up, and then get it merged.  Maybe it's being
> "rude", but so is not responding to requests to get it merged.

So can I treat Shem's code as a spec release, and merge it? :-).

[Okay, so your position is more reasonable than expected, good; but
signed-off process strongly discourages merging some code without
author's cooperation.]
									Pavel
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