Hi Andreas, See the process documentation folder: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/Documentation/process https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst There's a couple of very helpful youtube videos from Greg that describe the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&t=24s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXix80GCvpo Feel free to email this mailing list again if you get stuck! On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 15:50, Geißler, Andreas <andreas.geissler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I would like to integrate some of our company drivers into the Vanilla Linux kernel, but I have never done this before. > Some esteemed colleagues did this a few years earlier, but unfortunately they are no longer with the company and we lost all information on how to do it. > > We want to set up a process to keep the knowledge, but we have to start over. I am the chosen one who shall do this. > > So I read a lot of guidelines and kernel documentation and create a first patch-set of one driver to be submitted. Before going to the actual mailing lists (scripts/get_maintainer.pl), I would like to send this patch-set to the linux-newbie list for hopefully some constructive comments. > > > The driver is a BMC driver that supports the company's generic BMC called "14Y007", which is assembled on many of our hardware components. The BMC is connected via I2C. The driver is a further development of the menf21bmc driver, which is already in the kernel. > The driver is not yet finished and can be adjusted at anytime. > > First question: Does it make sense to publish the driver at linux-newbie for a review before doing it on the actual mailing lists? > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- > Andreas Geissler - Software Engineer > > MEN Mikro Elektronik GmbH > Neuwieder Straße 1-7 90411 Nürnberg > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Michael Goldbach - Matthias Kamolz - Yilmaz Kocak - Handelsregister AG Nürnberg HRB 5540 >
