Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

[Christoph Bartelmus]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:20:06 +0100 Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:06:32PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> I'd really love if the same offer was extended to GPL out-of-tree
>> driver trees.
>
> This kind of offer has _always_ been there for out-of-tree GPL
> drivers. I have contacted many different groups and driver authors
> over the years to offer my help in trying to get their code into the
> mainline kernel.
>
> Some take me up on the offer, others ignore it, and still others
> activly refuse to do so, saying they want to stay out-of-the tree
> (lirc is one of these examples...)

I'm the LIRC maintainer. I don't know what let's you think LIRC wants to  
stay out-of-the-tree.

I just made clear that I don't have the time to do the merging of LIRC  
drivers to the kernel myself. In fact a lot of work still needs to be  
done before LIRC drivers are ready to be included into the kernel.  
Spreading the impression that LIRC refuses to work with kernel  
developers is not particularly helpful...

Any help welcome.

Christoph

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