Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:43:56 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Jan 31 2007 18:59, Lee Revell wrote: > On 1/31/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: >> >> More specifically, Dave said that it "seemed rude" to just take the >> driver and send updates, but maybe the best way of dealing with >> out-of-tree drivers like lirc is to treat the out-of-tree drivers as a >> kind of spec release, and just have someone in the community forcibly >> take the code, fix it up, and then get it merged. > > But if the maintainer is unwilling to work with the kernel developers, > the driver won't get bugfixes or updates for new hardware.
Talk about util-linux and rpm, whose maintainers were/are unwilling to give back the project to those who would really like to work on it.
At least I don't differentiate between userspace and kernelspace when it comes to "hijacking projects back for the better". foobar is left where it is, and is commonly forked into foobar-ng. It's just naming. Just pull in lirc and tag it lirc-ng.
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