Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 00:48:12 EST


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:41:03PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> >> 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.
>
> Maybe not entirely a new driver, as there already exist out-of-kernel
> vendor GPL driver, but if somebody is willing to resolve the issue
> described here:
>
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.serial/1221>
>
> please contact me, and I'll be willing to help in testing as I have the
> hardware.

Do you have a pointer to the driver source anywhere?

I suggest just posting it as a patch to the tree as documented in
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and seeing how that goes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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