Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
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Well, if ITE wanted its stuff in-kernel, it would be there by now. Don't
underestimate what you can do (this is free software after all). For
stuff like this motivation and access to harware is more important than
coding credentials. People will help and advice you, they just won't
bother themselves with drivers for hardware they do not have.
This would be different if you were tweaking a core subsystem, or if you
didn't have a working driver as a starting point, but a lot of the
driver work is done by people who just need support for their hardware.
I should know, I got a few lines myself into the kernel, and it was
grunt work only me was interested in. Kudos to all the kernel
maintainers who listened to me at the time.
Got any suggestions as to who i should send patches to, then? :-)
This still doesn't solve the problem of getting FC1 driver disks made,
though. I'm sure someone more experienced at driver development would
be able to solve this in a few minutes - isn't module symbol versioning
fairly mundane stuff in kernel terms?
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Paul
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