> (1)To whom our driver source are given?
I'd normally suggest you make it available as a test release by putting
it up for ftp and posting the URL, so that once you've tested it in house
outside people can try it for a bit
> (2)If a distributor try to distribute his collection, who will make
> sure the driver works for our hardware?
Distributors normally pull stull from the main kernel tree, which is stuff
that people think works. (At least it shouldnt have gotten there until it
does). So it trickles down to folks who make cdroms
The linux vendors tend to have degrees of support by driver they offer
ranging from 'it might work' to 'we have tested it in our lab and it has
our badge of approval'. How this works varies by vendor
> (3)If users have encountered the bugs in the driver, who will fix
> it? And how does the distributor update his collection?
The kernel is GPL so anyone can fix it. It is sometimes vendors who fix it,
sometimes users. It is a good idea to include a note asking people to submit
copies of any changes to you.
If you are actively maintainers of the code then what normally happens is
the 2.2 or 2.3 maintainer will generally take patches from you in preference
to other people, and ask other people to feed their changes to you for
approval.
Alan
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