Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:01:51 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Hubert Mantel <> | Subject | Where to put new drivers? |
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Hello,
There's a company here in Germany manufacturing high end SCSI disk array controllers (ICP vortex).
Some time ago they sent me the linux driver (GPL'ed) and asked to incorporate it into our linux distribution. As they are not too familiar with the kernel mailing lists, they asked me to send it to Linus in order to integrate this driver into the "official" kernel.
I sent this driver to Linus several months ago but received no answer (naturally, Linus is buried in EMail, I think). So I uploaded the driver to sunsite.unc.edu's Incoming directory, but it seems to have been deleted there.
Now my question: Where to put this driver to make it go into the kernel? It compiles out of the box (I tried kernels from 1.99.3 to 2.0.18) without any warning. I cannot test it, because I don't have the hardware, but the folks at ICP vortex report that it is working like a charm.
I think it's great that hardware manufacturers are writing device drivers for linux by themselves, but it's not easy to make them go into the kernel.
If anyone has the hardware (all adapters manufactured by ICP vortex are supported by this driver) and wants to test it out, please drop me line and I will send you the patch.
Hubert mantel@suse.de
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