From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: crash77a@allvantage.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Converting kernel modules from 2.4 to 2.6/Suggested new driver
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:53:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006015310.GD9683@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041005182716.2f3f52c0.rddunlap@osdl.org>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:27:16PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> You can recommend them for inclusion, but the developer or maintainer
> of them needs to either submit them or at least approve their
> submission for inclusion.
Also, the first thing to check is probably this:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:09:20 -0400 Kenny Bentley wrote:
> | Or since I've never done any kernel programming, I have a better idea.
> | I want to recommend the drivers for inclusion into the official kernel
> | tree. The drivers were released open-source by Linuxant or the
> | manufacturer, I don't remember which one for sure.
You'll need to double-check that. I think Linuxant released some
free-as-in-beer drivers that were a mixture of free and proprietary
code, so it was easy to get confused on this point.
--Bruce Fields
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-06 1:09 Converting kernel modules from 2.4 to 2.6/Suggested new driver Kenny Bentley
2004-10-06 1:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-06 1:53 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2004-10-06 4:13 ` Kenny Bentley
2004-10-06 2:19 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06 4:02 ` Kenny Bentley
2004-10-06 12:51 ` John Carlson
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