Merging device drivers to LK tree

[Bjørn Mork]

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu writes:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:54:37 +0300, alexhoppus said:
>
>> No, I just try to understand the process. I don't fully understand what
>> is the role of independent developer in the process of submitting new
>> drivers to LK. What I mean is - hardware device vendors always ship
>> device driver with their products. In this case several options are
>> available:
>> 1.) HW vendor ships only closed-source drivers and is not interested to
>> open source this work.
>> 2.) HW vendor publishes device drivers to the community by himself
>> 3.) HW vendor put the device driver sources to their website ready for
>> downloading and building, but make no effort for integrating them to LK.
>
> You missed one:
>
> 4.) HW vendor only ships a Windows or OSX client.


And another one:

 5.) vendor independent class drivers


IMHO perfect for the independent developer since there will be
documentation available.  The USB class specs are freely available for
example.



Bjørn