From: "John P. Looney" <john@antefacto.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Etiquette of getting a driver into the kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:28:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011123102828.D27980@antefacto.com> (raw)
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I've a Phison "usb multiple card reader". Nice little device, though I
think the driver isn't the best (block size of 1k when reading & writing
gets 80k/sec, block size of 32k gets 850k/sec).
The device came with a driver for linux on a floppy, as a patch against
2.4.2. It needed a little beating to get it to compile, and it caused
not-a-few kernel panics. Some kind soul on the net mailed me a newer
version, which does work a lot more reliably. The email address given for
the original author (in the source) doesn't seem to answer requests like
"is there a newer version of this driver", or "Is this driver GPL'd ?".
Basically, I've a patch for it against 2.4.15, and I'm wondering how I
should go about getting it into the kernel, so others can debug it for me :)
John
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-23 10:28 John P. Looney [this message]
2001-11-23 21:38 ` Etiquette of getting a driver into the kernel bert hubert
[not found] <mailman.1006511470.4667.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-11-24 18:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-11-26 9:47 ` John P. Looney
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