Re: Out of tree GPL serial tty driver help?

[Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>]

On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 08:19 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:10:14AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > >Also, any reason why these drivers aren't in the main kernel tree?  If
> > >they were, all of this work would have been done for you :)
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, I wish they were in the kernel. I've had to maintain them since
> > the 2.6 days because Digi just won't do it and their cards do what
> > we need quite well and are still current products. Ya, you can buy a
> > brand new one but the latest kernel supported is 2.6. I think Digi
> > at one point long ago may have tried the "in kernel" route but you
> > probably know more about that than I do.
> > 
> > Since 2.6, the maintenance on these hasn't been to bad, until udev
> > came along. But I guess after 3.4 the tty layer is going through
> > quite some changes that I have yet to understand.
> 
> And there will be lots more changes happening to it in the future.  Why
> not submit the drivers now (after you get them working)?

Probably not Mark's (or Compro's) code to submit.