Re-send. Simon's email address in kernel's maintainer list seems invalid. As Mark Studebaker sugggested, I will consult this with the PPC mailing list as well and try to find a place to hold the I2C patch against the kernel initially (if needed). Thanks, Xianghua >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Xiao Xianghua-r6aads >>Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 10:10 AM >>To: 'simon at tk.uni-linz.ac.at' >>Cc: Xiao Xianghua-r6aads >>Subject: Motorola I2C driver question >> >> >>Simon, >> >>I am an engineer from Motorola working in I2C driver. I >>noticed you're the maintainer for Linux kernel's I2C driver >>and I have some questions about submitting I2C drivers to the >>kernel source,hopefully you have time to answer. >> >>I recently sent an email to the lmsensor mailing list >>regarding consolidating I2C Linux drivers for Motorola chips. >>Basically we only need two I2C drivers for all Motorola >>chips. I have contacted a few other authors(Michael on 8245, >>Adrian,Wolfgang Denx)...we all worked on the same thing and >>it's time to consolidate :) >> >>My question is about the procedures to get the Motorola I2C >>driver into the kernel. For most PPC related patches, we sent >>to the PPC maintainer directly. However it's my understanding >>that all I2C drivers will be sent to you and the Lmsensor >>team before it can be merged to the kernel source, am I >>correct? If yes, I will send my consolidated patch to you >>directly and hope you can add it into your the I2C package. If >>No, please let me know and I will contact the PPC maintainer instead. >> >>My second question is that do I need submit 2.6 patch at the >>same time? >> >>My last question is about the Lmsensor package, I wrote an >>algo driver, an adaptor driver(both should be in i2c package, >>e.g i2c.2.8.1), and used lmsensor package to test this >>driver(i.e. eeprom tests, I modified it a little bit). I will >>only submit these two drivers and will share the utilities in >>lmsensor package, is it acceptable or I have to write >>something specifically for the lmsensor package? >> >>Thanks a lot, >> >>Xianghua >> >> >>
