> I am fine with small projects, till we do not have surge of them because > anyone clones some project and vibe-codes new soft-core. > > Projects run on your personal github, without any organization, do not > get their own vendor prefix. Why? Because then you come with another > project and want one more prefix... Personal vendor prefix would be > fine, but different thing: this repo for your design was created a few > months ago, with one contributor and ~70 commits. This means it is very > new, without users.
Makes sense. I'll go with a personal vendor prefix instead, e.g. "kieweg,gpu-1.0". I'd reuse that for any future project instead of asking for a new prefix. > What is the benefit of having it in Linux kernel for the community? Who > needs this, outside of you? Honestly, no one, probably. I built this because I wanted to learn, not because anyone was asking for it. I actually asked about this exact concern during the RFC review, whether being a hobby/non commercial project could be a dealbreaker for mainline. Thomas Zimmermann's reply at the time was: We already have a driver for a RasPi-based USB display that someone made in their spare time. So being a hobbyist project is not a problem per se. I don't want to pretend there's a bigger community need than there actually is. If that's not enough for mainline, I understand. Best regards, Leander
