On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:12:04PM +0200, Luca Arzeni wrote: > Hi, > please excuse me if I'm sending to you this request but I'm not sure of > where should I pose this question, so feel free to point me to other targets > if you think so. > > ------- > > I recently have bought an internal PCI modem WITH controller (not a > winmodem). It's a robotics 2981 (chipser exar) and it's supported under > linux from kernel 2.6.18 onward. > > According to the vendor, the kernel support for this controller is flawed, > or not fully working, so the vendor release a module to make the modem work > properly. > > The module is released as: > > EXAR Multiport Device Driver Ver 4.4 Installation Guide > for Linux Kernel 2.6.18 (Tested with openSuse 10.2) > Copyright (C) 2007, EXAR. > > All the drivers and utilities are published in form of source code under > GNU General Public License in this version. Please refer to GNU General > Public License announcement in each source code file for more detail. > > So it should be all compatible with the kernel policy. > > ----- > > Question is: > may I contribute this module to you for including it into next kernel > releases?
The correct path is to get the necessary changes accepted upstream. We can then backport the necessary fixes into new kernel releases. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
