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

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

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/
>
> Cheers,
>        Moritz
>
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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.

~J.R.