From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Drivers for selfmade hardware
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:01:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080629200101.GA29452@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806292147.52112.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:47:52PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> I'm wondering what the policy is for selfmade hardware
> or other hardware where only a few pieces exist. Is it desired
> to get drivers for this kind of hardware merged upstream into the
> mainline kernel?
>
> I have a tiny driver that can be used to drive a modified
> Brooktree 8xx based card in 24-port GPIO mode.
> So the card can be used as a cheap digital PCI GPIO card.
> This hardware can be built with some soldering skills, a tiny
> soldering tip and a few hours of free time.
>
> So what's the policy? Push to mainline or keep as seperate
Push to mainline as long as you have a nice enough guide on the web
somewhere describing how to build it :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-29 19:47 Michael Buesch
2008-06-29 20:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-06-29 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-30 9:50 ` Hans J. Koch
2008-06-30 10:00 ` Michael Buesch
2008-06-30 15:37 ` Miguel Ojeda
2008-07-10 5:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-10 12:57 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-10 13:13 ` Andrew Morton
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