Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:56:01 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On Jan 31 2007 08:34, David Hollis wrote: >Conversely, I've seen many cases of drivers that are developed by the >community, but kept out-of-kernel forever due to various reasons. Some >of them are due to the code quality and the developers not accepting the >feedback to get the drivers into shape to be 'kernel worthy', sometimes >it seems to be a lack of interest from the developers to merge upstream. >Maybe because they think they would lose control or something?
Putting the "codingstyle" control aside, often it's because things look too hackish. Take ipt_ROUTE as an example. It won't get included, since the "proper" way to do it would be using MARK and iproute2. But many users don't get that [no criticism here], because ipt_ROUTE is so much easier. (Probably because iproute2 and other netlink-using tools, like tc, lack thorough documentation.)
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