On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:28:00 +0100 Andreas Oberritter <obi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > hbomb ustc wrote: > > I have written the V4L-DVB driver of DTV/ATV receiver for my company. > > And I want to contribute the soure code of it to V4L-DVB or linux > > kernel. Could someone tell me how to do this? Thanks. > > You can either set up a public repository, where your source code can > be pulled from, or you can send your patches to this mailing list. If > they are large, it might be preferrable to put them on a web server > instead and send a link to the mailing list. > > If you'd like to set up a repository on linuxtv.org, I'm sure there's > someone out there, who can create an account for you. Mauro? We could create an account at Linuxtv. I'm now using some tools for handling patches that I receive. So, sending via email works fine. Please c/c me on the patches, especially when you think you have a version that you think it is ready. A very good practice is to first submit an initial version at the ML, as a RFC at the mailing list, for people to comment, before sending them to me for merging. After having everybody happy, then you send they to me for merge. > Contributions to the Linux kernel require a statement that you are > entitled to publish the source code under the terms of the license > of Linux. Please use your real name. Yes. The driver needs to be released at least under GPLv2 license. If you want, you may also allow more than one licensing, like GPLv2 or later and dual BSD/GPL. > Here are some documents that might give you some hints about proper > submission of a driver: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/CodingStyle > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingDrivers > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/SubmittingPatches You may also find some useful info at: http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/raw-file/tip/README.patches The README.patches contains the current procedures we use for V4L/DVB drivers and points to a few other documentation inside kernel tree. Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
