On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 14:30:13 -0500, James Grossmann wrote > I noticed that this driver has not beed added to the 2.6 kernel > tree. I'm just curious if there are any plans on introducing this > into the tree, or if there is a way in which I could build this for > my tyan 1834 motherboard. I am not a great programmer, but would be > interested in helping if there are no plans, I have researched the > chip and the differences between the lm_modules and the kernel > drivers for a couple of different chips and so have some background > on the drivers. The drivers are ported as time permits, and since it is a scare resource over here, ports are most frequently submitted by the users themselves. This is a good thing anyway since you need a chipset to test the code. I wrote a porting guide (Documentation/i2c/porting-clients in linux 2.6) which is considered a good base document. That and comparing with an already ported driver should make it relatively easy to port the mtp008 driver. It is a fairly large driver, but also quite similar to the lm78. When you are happy with the code, submit it over this mailing-list for review, from where it will be sent to Greg KH for integration into the kernel tree. Note that I am (sadly enough) the only active code reviewer here, and my list of drivers to review is already long (lm87, adm9240, pc87360 and a few others) and does stack down very slowly since I am overall busy (of course, everyone is). So, you better be ready to patiently wait before I get a chance to review any piece of code you provide. Unless someone else can take care of it, of course. Thanks. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/
