Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > There are lots of examples but my specific one is the gspca driver > that I built the first dkms package for and is exists at freshrpms. > This driver supports a lot of modern webcams, but the driver developer > has no intention of even trying to have this code merged into the > kernel. What are we to do in this circumstance? Get somebody else to push the code upstream? > I think we need something better than the "safe" ostrich syndrome; if > it is out of the kernel it scares us and we run away from it. There > is plenty of legitimate driver development being done outside of the > kernel. It just seems a bad decision to completely bury our heads in > the sand to this code-base. I /do/ agree that the "got into the vanilla kernel" is an important cuality sign... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
