Re: [PATCH]: How to be a kernel driver maintainer

Pavel Machek
2006-01-10T13:49:38Z

Hi!

> Since this discussion of getting driver authors to submit their driver
> for inclusion I started writing a document to send them. I think it's
> best included in the kernel tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>

Well, nice document, but it does not really match the title. I
expected something like "how to be Jeff Garzik" and it is more "how to
get your driver into kernel and keep it there". It does not deal with
taking patches from other people, etc... I think it should go into
submitting driver howto or something like that.

Pavel

> --- /dev/null 2006-01-05 16:54:17.144000000 -0500
> +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO-KernelMaintainer 2006-01-08 11:02:34.000000000 -0500
> @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
> + How to be a kernel driver maintainer
> + ------------------------------------
> +
> +
> +This document explains what you must know before becoming the maintainer
> +of a portion of the Linux kernel. Please read SubmittingPatches and
> +SubmittingDrivers and CodingStyle, also in the Documentation/ directory.

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Thanks, Sharp!