Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: zaptel-kmod https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177583 ------- Additional Comments From dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxx 2006-10-04 09:13 EST ------- (In reply to comment #56) > I already commented that someone else could do this, that's no surprise to me :-) > > I did not really consider the option that Linus would let us still be the > official maintainers of Zaptel-in-the-kernel and thus we'd be responsible for > merging all patches that come through other channels (unless we fail to do that > job adequately). That's basically the case, yes. Patches to well-maintained subsystems go through the maintainers. Linus even rejected a patch from me to a USB driver I comaintain a week or so ago, because it didn't go through the USB maintainer. There are no guarantees, of course -- but basically I don't think you have anything to worry about on that front. > Given that, I'll talk to our people here and start the process, > since that would allow us to maintain our licensing control where we need to. That's excellent news -- thanks. > However, given the current state of the code, I can guarantee that it won't get > merged into the mainline kernel tree soon, as it does not currently meet kernel > coding guidelines. Indeed; that's one of the major reasons we insist on code being upstream before we'll ship it. > We'll need to get a kernel driver person working on cleaning > up the code and preparing it for submission. Let me know if you need assistance on this front. I have a disclaimer on file, kernel hacking is what I do for fun after a hard day's work kernel hacking, and my manager just told me to chase up the process of getting Asterisk into Fedora... I still don't want a zaptel-kmod package, or indeed _any_ kmod package in Extras. If/when it's good enough to ship and it's queued for 2.6.20 inclusion, I'll probably just put it directly into the Fedora kernel. DaveJ approval permitting, of course. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review