Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On 1/31/07, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> 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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