oracleasm driver into mainline?

oracleasm driver into mainline?

[Bjoern Boschman]

Hi,

I just wanted to ask if there might be a possibility that the oracleasm
kernel driver could find its way into the mainline kernel?

The code is running and being tested since quite some time and the 
author from oracle would be willingly to act as its maintainer.

See also: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm/

Bjoern

Re: oracleasm driver into mainline?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:21:59PM +0200, Bjoern Boschman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to ask if there might be a possibility that the oracleasm
> kernel driver could find its way into the mainline kernel?

Your mail is sent "To:" linux-kernel but the right thing is to ask Oracle.
If Oracle want's to submit the driver for inclusion in the mainline
kernel then they know they have to put some effort into doing so.
The normal steps are:
-> Prepare patch set including a good description of what the driver does and
   notes about how it does so and sentd it to relevant lists.
-> Address trivial comments from the coding style police
-> Address design related comments such as "do not abuse proc filesystem"
-> Resend the patch-set a few times ro more.

All in all a timeconsuming task and the resulting driver may not be fully
compatible with the original driver due to the design issues.

Anyone can do the above work but this just need to be done to get it included.

	Sam