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authorXose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>2006-01-08 04:02:49 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-08 23:13:53 -0500
commit5b0ed2c64d8fdafb5fcfb3baabdd288628b1ff9b (patch)
treee73ba55739b27f239cd224a413df9d4b61aff586 /Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
parent71fabd5e4835309b4feca6209122ce56c595c461 (diff)
[PATCH] docs: updated some code docs
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -27,18 +27,17 @@ Who To Submit Drivers To
27------------------------ 27------------------------
28 28
29Linux 2.0: 29Linux 2.0:
30 No new drivers are accepted for this kernel tree 30 No new drivers are accepted for this kernel tree.
31 31
32Linux 2.2: 32Linux 2.2:
33 No new drivers are accepted for this kernel tree.
34
35Linux 2.4:
33 If the code area has a general maintainer then please submit it to 36 If the code area has a general maintainer then please submit it to
34 the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file. If the 37 the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file. If the
35 maintainer does not respond or you cannot find the appropriate 38 maintainer does not respond or you cannot find the appropriate
36 maintainer then please contact the 2.2 kernel maintainer: 39 maintainer then please contact Marcelo Tosatti
37 Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>. 40 <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>.
38
39Linux 2.4:
40 The same rules apply as 2.2. The final contact point for Linux 2.4
41 submissions is Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>.
42 41
43Linux 2.6: 42Linux 2.6:
44 The same rules apply as 2.4 except that you should follow linux-kernel 43 The same rules apply as 2.4 except that you should follow linux-kernel
@@ -53,6 +52,7 @@ Licensing: The code must be released to us under the
53 of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver 52 of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver
54 to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well 53 to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well
55 wish to release under multiple licenses. 54 wish to release under multiple licenses.
55 See accepted licenses at include/linux/module.h
56 56
57Copyright: The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL. 57Copyright: The copyright owner must agree to use of GPL.
58 It's best if the submitter and copyright owner 58 It's best if the submitter and copyright owner
@@ -143,5 +143,13 @@ KernelNewbies:
143 http://kernelnewbies.org/ 143 http://kernelnewbies.org/
144 144
145Linux USB project: 145Linux USB project:
146 http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-usb/ 146 http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/
147
148How to NOT write kernel driver by arjanv@redhat.com
149 http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/olspaper.pdf
150
151Kernel Janitor:
152 http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
147 153
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155Last updated on 17 Nov 2005.