From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Out of tree GPL serial tty driver help? Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:21:52 -0700 Message-ID: <20130426232152.GA10407@kroah.com> References: <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> <1366990765.3452.50.camel@thor.lan> <20130426160348.GA28863@kroah.com> <517AC036.7000009@compro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:44367 "EHLO mail-pd0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753672Ab3DZXVz (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:21:55 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f171.google.com with SMTP id t12so2690457pdi.2 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <517AC036.7000009@compro.net> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Hounschell Cc: Peter Hurley , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Mark Hounschell 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