On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:49:19PM +1100, msevior@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:32:00 -0600 > > From: Steven Pritchard <steve@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: atmel drivers in the main distro? > > Reply-To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:30:50AM +1100, msevior@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > >> Is there a reason the atmel wireless drivers are not distributed with > >> the > >> main Fedora disto? > > > > There are a lot of wireless drivers that aren't integrated into the > > kernel. I'd suggest bugging the upstream developers about getting > > their driver into Linus's tree. > > > > In the mean time, there are other open-source wireless drivers in > > fedora.us QA (at least my kernel-module-hostap package and a > > kernel-module-prism54 package I noticed yesterday). I'd love to see > > more. (Actually, I'd love to see the existing ones make it through QA > > even more. :-) > > > > Steve > > It certainly makes sense for the these to be rolled into the 2.4 and 2.6 > kernels. > > So what the best route to do this? How do I let whoever know that the > atmel drivers WorksForMe? Tell the driver authors to submit them to the proper kernel maintainers. It is well documentated how to do this (see Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/SubmittingDrivers in the Linux source tree.) Good luck, greg k-h
