Hi Lothar,
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 at 5:25 +0200, Lothar Gesslein wrote:
> Hi FreeWRT Developers,
>
> I really like the FreeWRT Project, and to study the source/buildroot i
> thought it would be reasonable to begin developing something i
> personally miss, so i made a package to ease the use of the popular
> MM/SD-Card Mod on the Linksys WRT54G Family, while trying to get in
> touch with the buildsystem.
>
> I belive in the trial and error learning scheme, so instead of reading
> all avaliable docs, i just read whatever i needed to get this working.
> Please forgive the tons of errors that might be in there, i do not (yet)
> know the default/nice way to do some stuff, but i'm willing to learn and
> accept your critics.
>
> I used the default mmc.c file from http://kiel.kool.dk/mmc.c but did
> include it to prevent changes in this unversioned file breaking
> something. It's GPL, so this should be fine.
>
> Because of me using the default mmc.c file, this will not work out of
> the box on devices where other gpio pins are used. Maybe I'll add a
> configuration for that someday, but for now i think it's fine without,
> and ppl with other gpios can change it in the source file themselves.
Thanks for the contribution. I would like to keep Maintainers for
new packages, if they are not belonging to base. Do you like to
maintain the package inside our distribution?
Maintaining means, you take care of any support and feature reqests
for this package.
> If you don't want to include it to some future version, please explain
> why. Note that it took me several hours to accomplish this ;)
> But i feel great, because i first really thought it would never work
> out.
> The next thing where i'll try out my newly aquired skills is a grkrellmd
> package.
Go for it :}
> Greetings, ulmen
>
> PS: I used MM/SD-Card, because MMC-Card (MultiMediaCard-Card) would be a
> redundant acronym like LCD-Display ... perhaps this is also not the
> default way to write it. ;D
>
> PPS: AFAIK OpenWRT doesn't have this, so it could be another point on
> your WRT Changelog page ;) ... Just a joke, i personally don't care
> about any foo vs. bar conflict. Only if someone prefers emacs over
> vim ... naaaah ;)
>
> PPPS: I also submitted three bugs i found. I wasn't sure about the
> Component section, so i just choose whatever i thought to be reasonable.
> Keep up the good work!!
Thanks, we will do!
bye
Waldemar
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