Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:01:01 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Drivers for selfmade hardware |
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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 :)
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