On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:49:19PM +1100, msevior(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:32:00 -0600
> From: Steven Pritchard <steve(a)silug.org>
> To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: Re: atmel drivers in the main distro?
> Reply-To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
>
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:30:50AM +1100, msevior(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au
> wrote:
>> Is there a reason the atmel wireless drivers are not distributed with
>> the
>> main Fedora disto?
>
> There are a lot of wireless drivers that aren't integrated into the
> kernel. I'd suggest bugging the upstream developers about getting
> their driver into Linus's tree.
>
> In the mean time, there are other open-source wireless drivers in
> fedora.us QA (at least my kernel-module-hostap package and a
> kernel-module-prism54 package I noticed yesterday). I'd love to see
> more. (Actually, I'd love to see the existing ones make it through QA
> even more. :-)
>
> Steve
It certainly makes sense for the these to be rolled into the 2.4 and 2.6
kernels.
So what the best route to do this? How do I let whoever know that the
atmel drivers WorksForMe?
Tell the driver authors to submit them to the proper kernel maintainers.
It is well documentated how to do this (see
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/SubmittingDrivers in
the Linux source tree.)
Good luck,
greg k-h