On Mon 10 December 2012 14:07:09 Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi all, > > As discussed in Barcelona I would write a text describing requirements for new > drivers and what to expect when submitting patches to linux-media. > > This is a first rough draft and nothing is fixed yet. > > I have a few open questions: > > 1) Where to put it? One thing I would propose that we improve is to move the > dvb and video4linux directories in Documentation/ to Documentation/media to > correctly reflect the drivers/media structure. If we do that, then we can put > this document in Documentation/media/SubmittingMediaPatches. > > Alternatively, this is something we can document in our wiki. > > 2) Are there DVB requirements as well for new drivers? We discussed a list of > V4L2 requirements in Barcelona, but I wonder if there is a similar list that > can be made for DVB drivers. Input on that will be welcome. > > 3) This document describes the situation we will have when the submaintainers > take their place early next year. So please check if I got that part right. > > 4) In Barcelona we discussed 'tags' for patches to help organize them. I've > made a proposal for those in this document. Feedback is very welcome. > > 5) As discussed in Barcelona there will be git tree maintainers for specific > platforms, but we didn't really go into detail who would be responsible for > which platform. If you want to maintain a particular platform, then please > let me know. > > 6) The patchwork section is very short at the moment. It should be extended > when patchwork gets support to recognize the various tags. > > 7) Anything else that should be discussed here? How to submit patches for a stable kernel. I can never remember, and I'm sure I'm not the only one :-) Regards, Hans -- 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
