Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:11:26 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin |
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:18:55AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:06:35AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > The other related question is device driver implementation stuff (not interfaces > > and abstractions). You don't seem to check that much anyway, or have any taste > > in device drivers 8) so should that be part of the small fixing job ? > > I've often dreamt of an overall "drivers maintainer" or perhaps just an > unmaintained-drivers maintainer: a person with taste who could give > driver patches a glance, when noone else does. > (and no I'm not volunteering :))
I have had that same dream too, Jeff :) Especially after spelunking through the SCSI drivers, and being amazed that only one of them uses the, now two year old, pci_register_driver() interface (which means that only that driver works properly in PCI hotplug systems.)
Having someone with "taste" to run driver patches by first would have been a great help when I started out writing them. I've been trying to provide that resource for the new USB drivers.
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