Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:39:32 -0500 | From | "Lee Revell" <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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On 1/31/07, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:00:15 -0500 Theodore Tso 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. Maybe it's being > >> "rude", but so is not responding to requests to get it merged. > > I believe a BIG reason why lots of open-source drivers are out-of-tree > right now, is because lkml is perceived as being wayyyyyy too fussy > and petty about 80-column lines, brackets, etc.. for new code. > > It's just not worth the effort/abuse for many maintainers to pursue it.
That seems like the easy part - it seems like anyone bright enough to write a working Linux driver would be good enough with their editor or perl or bash to knock that out in 10 minutes.
I would think rules like "no new ioctls" and "no new /proc entries", that might seem arbitrary to one who doesn't follow kernel development, plus the occasionally insulting code reviewer, would be more of an issue.
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