Re: wanPMC-CxT1E1

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:43:44PM -0400, Bob Beers wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:48:53PM -0400, Bob Beers wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >> > Getting it to build on 2.6.31 is more important than RHEL5, we can't do
> >> > anything with an old kernel like that.
> >>
> >> ok, so where do I start, I have a system ready to start
> >> ?git cloning, and creating patches. I googled for a while
> >> ?but didn't find a nice recipe for participating in the -staging
> >> ?process.
> >
> > Ick, this isn't going to be easy, a lot of work needs to be done on the
> > driver to get it just to build on the latest kernel tree. ?I personally
> > don't have the time to do it right now, but will gladly accept patches
> > that add it to the staging tree if someone else wants to do it.
> >
> > sorry,
> 
> I've started down the path.  Is 'successfully compiles' the only requirement
>  for the first patch?

Yup, as long as it builds I'm happy :)

thanks,

greg k-h