On 04/26/2013 12:03 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:39:25AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 08:19 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:10:14AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Also, any reason why these drivers aren't in the main kernel tree? If
they were, all of this work would have been done for you :)
Yes, I wish they were in the kernel. I've had to maintain them since
the 2.6 days because Digi just won't do it and their cards do what
we need quite well and are still current products. Ya, you can buy a
brand new one but the latest kernel supported is 2.6. I think Digi
at one point long ago may have tried the "in kernel" route but you
probably know more about that than I do.
Since 2.6, the maintenance on these hasn't been to bad, until udev
came along. But I guess after 3.4 the tty layer is going through
quite some changes that I have yet to understand.
And there will be lots more changes happening to it in the future. Why
not submit the drivers now (after you get them working)?
Probably not Mark's (or Compro's) code to submit.
If it's a GPL driver, anyone can submit it.
However, if the original copyright owner doesn't want it to be
submitted, we will be glad to take that under consideration.
Mark, what's the reason this has never been submitted?
Greg,
As for the Digi card driver/drivers, I can't say why not. There is a
remnant of the actual one this thread is pertaining to in
./Documentation/serial/digiepca.txt. I've never submitted it or any of
their others I have to maintain because I didn't know I could nor would
know how to start. I thought that Digi would have had to do it.
As far as Compro's drivers go, I think we have just been a little
wary/unknowing of what it would take and what the results of the effort
would actually be. Would they still do what _we_ needed them to do? Are
we kernel savvy enough to get them to a state you would accept? etc...
We do understand that if they were in the kernel that the best qualified
people would be the ones that "kept them current" with the latest kernel
changes. It's certainly something that no one here would object to
doing. Are you the man to talk to? What is the actual process?
Regards
Mark
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