Re: staging: me4000 and relation to other data acquisition devices

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:37:54PM -0400, J.R. Mauro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> >> Of course, if someone doesn't want their code in the staging tree, I
> >> will not add it, that's just being "nice".
> >>
> >> As for what I will not put into staging, right now I'm sticking with
> >> drivers only, no filesystems (people have asked already).  I don't think
> >> we have seen any drivers that I will not put into the staging tree yet.
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> > Great effort with staging, thanks a lot!
> >
> > I've had a look at the out-of-tree kernel drivers currently present
> > in Debian, maybe you want to merge some into staging. The Debian
> > overview pages contain download links (the orig.tar.gz files):
> >
> > Acer hotkey driver:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/acerhk.html
> > http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/
> >
> > Synaptics cPad:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cpad-kernel.html
> > http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/cPad/index.shtml
> >
> > 3Dfx driver:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/device3dfx.html
> > http://glide.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > et131x Ethernet Controller:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/et131x.html
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x/
> 
> This driver (or a driver for the same hardware) is in staging already.
> 
> >
> > GPIB (IEEE 488) drivers:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpib.html
> > http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > LEDs driver of PCEngines ALIX 2/3 boards:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/leds-alix.html
> > https://dev.openwrt.org/
> >
> > Kernel driver for the back-end scaler on Matrox cards:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mga-vid.html
> > http://attila.kinali.ch/mga/
> >
> > ov51x-jpeg driver:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ov51x-jpeg.html
> > http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page
> >
> > tp_smapi kernel modules:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tp-smapi.html
> > http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Voicetronix telephony hardware:
> > http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vpb-driver.html
> > http://www.voicetronix.com.au/
> 
> Greg,
> 
> If you're interested in having the above drivers get into staging and
> need someone to email the developers about it, I humbly volunteer.

Please do, that would be wonderful.

I'll go add these packages to my big "spreadsheet o' drivers" I'm trying
to use to track all of this mess...

thanks,

greg k-h