- From: Robert Fitzsimons <robfitz_at_273k.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:27:48 +0100
> If you try to bring in outsiders who have no particular interest in comedi > beyond "getting all external drivers into the kernel", and have them run > off making massive changes on their own (even if they are trivial changes, > like changing all the whitespace conventions), you're likely to end up > with nothing but a dead fork bitrotting in the kernel. Creating a fork isn't the idea at all. It would be to work with yourself and the other Comedi developers, to get the code into a shape where it could be included and maintained within the mainline kernel development processes. I hope to be able to do other work with the Linux Driver Project, but I wouldn't call myself a Comedi outsider, I've got a USB-DUX and have been lurking on this list for a couple of years now. As I see it the Linux Driver Project provides an opportunity for Comedi development to become similar to other subsystem projects like the ALSA and V4L/DVB projects. So after the initial work of getting the Comedi subsystem included, the Comedi maintainer would feed changes in to mainline kernel by sending patches or a pull request to Linus during the merge window. Internal API changes or bug fixes might be made by the wider kernel development community but these should be easily merged with the Comedi development tree. I think it would be a good thing for Comedi development. Robert
Received on 2007-10-27Z21:27:48