From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: Out of tree GPL serial tty driver help? Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:39:25 -0400 Message-ID: <1366990765.3452.50.camel@thor.lan> References: <51781A19.5030707@compro.net> <1366926071.3452.17.camel@thor.lan> <517A79E1.8060504@compro.net> <1366983913.3452.33.camel@thor.lan> <517A8EF1.8040006@compro.net> <20130426143526.GA15132@kroah.com> <517A98D6.2020701@compro.net> <20130426151905.GA27340@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout02.c08.mtsvc.net ([205.186.168.190]:40935 "EHLO mailout02.c08.mtsvc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753884Ab3DZPjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:39:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130426151905.GA27340@kroah.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: Mark Hounschell , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Mark Hounschell 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.