On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:00, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Chris Spencer wrote: >> I noticed the WiSH drivers for X10 home automation devices >> (http://wish.sourceforge.net) don't appear to be normally included in >> any distributions, including Fedora. Is there a reason for this? Is >> WiSH still too immature, or are X10 devices too exotic to include >> support for? What's the general procedure on getting device drivers >> included in Fedora? >> >> Chris > >If it doesnt require patches and is a standalone software, you can >package it in Fedora Extras > >http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras > >If it requires patches, encourage the developers to submit it and get >it included in the upstream project. For the kernel the procedure is >documented in I've been using 'heyu' with 'xtend' for years. One can write some pretty sofisticated programs with them. I change my configuration on how the exterior lights are controlled 3 times a day. This stuff is all standalone, needing only the support for your serial ports in the kernel. > >http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers > >regards >Rahul -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
