Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Bob Copeland]

> Putting the "codingstyle" control aside, often it's because things look
> too hackish.

Also sometimes the authors know it's hackish, or just don't expect it
to be generally useful to the world.  I happen to own an out-of-tree
filesystem which I have little desire to have reviewed for mainline:
only a dozen people use it at most, and I know it would get pinged
mercilessly for using buffer heads and general insanity if it ever
made it past "use FUSE instead" (which would admittedly be a perfectly
fine response).  It works though, so I keep it up to date with the VFS
changes.

I do have some interest in working on various device drivers, though.
Greg, assuming this somehow kicks off some avalanche of specs, will
there be a ML for hooking up driver writers with specs and willing
users?

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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