Hi Greg, > > 1. Could you write a little bit more about the staging to mainline > > driver roadmap? I'm interested in how it's decided wheather the > > driver is *ready*. > > That's simple, it just needs to meet the normal kernel coding > guidelines and acceptance rules. Those are documented very well in > Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/SubmittingDrivers. > Also, a review of the proper subsystem maintainer is needed. > > Some drivers have already made the move over, the benet network driver > did it just this week. > > > 2. Lets assume I found some kernel driver out-there that have its > > users here and there and is more or less (rather less) maintained. > > Let's assume it supports some obscure yet cool hardware. Making it > > work on various distros with various kernels is a pain and takes > > time. What can we do to see it included in staging and maybe > > promoted to mainline some day? Lets assume the author is not > > responsive, doesn't care or is not interested anymore and the > > driver is under GPL. > > If you are willing to help out with this, and you have asked the > author if they object to adding it, with no response, I have no > problem adding it to the staging tree. This has happened many times > already with the code in drivers/staging/ if you look at it. > > Hope this helps, It does. Thanks, Mariusz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
