Re: Push AF9005 driver to main repo?

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Luca Olivetti wrote:
En/na Mauro Carvalho Chehab ha escrit:

Em Qui, 2007-05-03 às 13:55 +0200, Markus Rechberger escreveu:

Is there anything against it?

Markus

On 5/1/07, P. van Gaans <w3ird_n3rd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I managed to screw up my message for a second time so I'll just write a
whole new message. Would it be possible to push the AF9005 drvier from
/hg/~manu/af9005 to the main repo? I'm not sure Luca's line in his reply
to me will get noticed so I thought this deserved a whole new message.


For me, it is ok, providing that Luca or Manu send us a pull request.


Is this a special mail or something, or can this message considered as a pull request? ;-)

I've did a really quick look at his patch. There are some CodingStyle
issues that should be fixed, like hexadecimal values using uppercase. At
the pull request, I'll take a closer look at the patch, before adding my
SOB.

Most CodingStyle issues can easily by running a really small script,
available at scripts/Lindent at the kernel tree. The script content is:

    #!/bin/sh
    indent -npro -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l80 -ss -ncs "$@"


I ran Lindent before submitting the patch to Manu !?!?


(of course, you need to have the indent package installed at the local
machine)

It is interesting also to mark newer drivers as EXPERIMENTAL for one or
two kernel releases.

If AF9005 is intended to be added on kernel 2.6.22, this should be done
ASAP, since the merge window is closing. Otherwise, if the driver is not
stable enough, the better is to wait to the end of the window, then add
it to the tree. I prefer the last option.


Well, I've been using my driver since december and I didn't suffer any crash or problems. I had reports of funky usage number in lsmod, but I think that's because of my use of symbol_request/symbol_put (though it doesn't happen on my machine): I separated the remote decoding functions in a standalone module, so I can substitute the implementation (in fact I have a different one on my page that interfaces with lirc). Other users have been using it with no problems (or at least with no more problems than under windows, as P. van Gaans can testify ;-)

That's true, on Windows it doesn't work at all for me. I heard that from others too. It works much better on Linux ;).

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