From: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: All your drivers are belong to us
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 15:28:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2prrwsz5a.fsf_-_@ohwell.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080507194957.47abb103@zod.rchland.ibm.com
Hi,
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 17:42:51 -0400
> Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech•com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:30 +0200
>> "Detlev Zundel" <dzu@denx•de> wrote:
>>
>> > It also happened that a driver once posted for what the customer
>> > thought was a completely specific device of his own today supports
>> > lots of different boards from at least four different manufacturers."
>> >
>> > The wording is of course not exact but I hope I caught the spirit of
>> > what Greg wanted to say. So yes, please post the driver - maybe Greg
>> > KH will tunnel it into mainline...
>>
>> I agree with the sentiment. However, it is hard enough to get
>> legitimate drivers into the kernel. The drivers I mentioned do not
>> come close to following the Linux kernel coding spec.
>
> Here's the cool part. There's this Linux driver project:
>
> http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
>
> where they can take drivers like that and clean them up. At least to a
> reasonable degree. The benefit for you is that once it's cleaned up,
> it can go into the mainline kernel and it will just be there in future
> releases. Helpful when you update.
Yes, I should have mentioned this also in my original mail. If I
remember correctly, Greg mentioned that in this project, he has *300*
developers waiting to do something. None of the companies previously
claiming Linux had a driver problem showed up even when he contacted
them directly....
> Now, I can't say I've personally ever used that project but its mission
> does seem pretty targeted towards groups that want to do the right
> thing with respect to drivers. Maybe you could give it a shot and tell
> others about the experience.
This would definitely be interesting.
Cheers
Detlev
--
-- Question authority!
-- Yeah, says who?
--
DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu@denx•de
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 0:41 WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores Sean MacLennan
2008-05-05 1:06 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-05-05 1:31 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-05-05 2:13 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-05 6:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-05 3:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-05 4:40 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-05-07 14:36 ` All your drivers are belong to us [was WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores] Detlev Zundel
2008-05-07 21:42 ` All your drivers are belong to us [was WARNING: mutexes are preferredfor " Sean MacLennan
2008-05-08 0:49 ` Josh Boyer
2008-05-08 4:41 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-05-08 13:28 ` Detlev Zundel [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m2prrwsz5a.fsf_-_@ohwell.denx.de \
--to=dzu@denx$(echo .)de \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs$(echo .)org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox