Re: Out of tree GPL serial tty driver help?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:58:14PM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> As for the Digi card driver/drivers, I can't say why not. There is a
> remnant of the actual one this thread is pertaining to in
> ./Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt. I've never submitted it or any
> of their others I have to maintain because I didn't know I could nor
> would know how to start. I thought that Digi would have had to do
> it.
> 
> As far as Compro's drivers go, I think we have just been a little
> wary/unknowing of what it would take and what the results of the
> effort would actually be. Would they still do what _we_ needed them
> to do? Are we kernel savvy enough to get them to a state you would
> accept? etc... We do understand that if they were in the kernel that
> the best qualified people would be the ones that "kept them current"
> with the latest kernel changes. It's certainly something that no one
> here would object to doing. Are you the man to talk to? What is the
> actual process?

Yes, I'm the person to talk to about doing this, we can take it off-list
if you want.

But, for some reading material about the process, take a look at
Documentation/SubmittingDrivers and Documentation/SubmittingPatches in
the kernel source tree.

Also, if you don't want to do the work, I, and a bunch of others, will
be glad to do it for you, for free, see the site linuxdriverproject.org
for some details about that.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h