On Sep 27 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:44:09AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Adding Cc: staging maintainer and mailinglist. > > > > On Sep 26 Devin Heitmueller wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab > > > <maurochehab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > In summary, if you don't have a couple hours to make your driver to > > > > match Kernel Coding Style, just send it as is to /drivers/staging, c/c > > > > me and Greg KH, and that's it. > > > > > > PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-80e/ > > > PULL http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102-2/ > > I can't do that as I need some commit messages in a format we can accept > (i.e. your directory structure doesn't match what we need in the kernel > tree from what I can tell.) [...] > As the drivers don't seem to be touched in way over a year, odds are the > code isn't going to be able to build as-is, so it will require some > changes for basic issues. > > And I'll glady accept patches for the staging tree. Also note that > we've just created a drivers/staging/media/ tree to house lots of > different v4l drivers that are being worked on in the staging tree to > help coordinate this type of work better. The conversion into patches with proper changelog, fitting directory structure, and basic build-ability in current staging is exactly the first step for which a volunteer is sought (next would then be the cleanup associated with staging->mainline transition); Devin noted that he is not going to dedicate time for these types of tasks. (I for one also won't; still got plenty to do in some other drivers...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-== =--= ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
