Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:28:28 +0000 | From | "John P. Looney" <> | Subject | Etiquette of getting a driver into the kernel |
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I've a Phison "usb multiple card reader". Nice little device, though I think the driver isn't the best (block size of 1k when reading & writing gets 80k/sec, block size of 32k gets 850k/sec).
The device came with a driver for linux on a floppy, as a patch against 2.4.2. It needed a little beating to get it to compile, and it caused not-a-few kernel panics. Some kind soul on the net mailed me a newer version, which does work a lot more reliably. The email address given for the original author (in the source) doesn't seem to answer requests like "is there a newer version of this driver", or "Is this driver GPL'd ?".
Basically, I've a patch for it against 2.4.15, and I'm wondering how I should go about getting it into the kernel, so others can debug it for me :)
John
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