On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:23:47AM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:34 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
Any reason your drivers are not already in the mainline kernel? If you need help getting them there, the linuxdriverproject.org people are more than willing to help you out.
One is a 'stupid' driver that replaces the serial port driver for a specified serial port, implementing a photocell sensor that time tags the port interrupt and does an asynchronous message (seen in the user's app via select/poll/SIGIO). I would not imagine anyone would be interested in it.
{sigh} We (the kernel.org community) are interested in _every_ driver out there, even if it only has 1 user. Heck, we have whole subarchitectures with only 3 users, and that is much more intrusive than a driver. See my 2006 OLS talk for more details about this: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html
One other driver, the bttv driver, already has our changes in the mainline. We hired a bttv developer to make the changes, In that case, it was a v4l2 feature that was defined in the API but was not present in the bttv driver. It is now. Before the changes made it into the kernel, we had to make a local compile and provide it. In 10.3 that is no longer needed.
Good to hear.
The other drivers are from special cards we use. One driver is not ours. We have the source because we use the cards. It is a multi-port realtime jpeg2000 compression/decompression card. Which has primarily Linux support. Perhaps the developer of that card is interested in this.
That sounds interesting to others, it should also go in :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org