On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Dmitri wrote: > I will try to think about it, though I (as everybody) have plenty of other > work to do... This project would be perfect for someone with good CGI > skills (mine are not that good, and I use PHP only occasionally...) The > kernel side of things is very simple:
Unfortunately I do not have CGI skills either. And, as everybody, I am busy too. What I can contribute is some experience in building Red Hat modules which is quite easy+testing with some modules under few Red Hat versions. > This is the standard, complete way, it allows custom patches to the kernel > and everything else. If the OEM only wants a single module compiled then > it is much easier. I think custom kernel patches in various places is too much. The focus should be on USB devices. Let's assume that only one/few modules in USB tree need to be built. > I am unsure if many OEMs will be happy giving their sources to someone, > even under NDA. Accidents happen (such as hacking or theft), and it is a > concern. Well, if they do not want to do it - then they would have to do it themselves. I think asking them to install this cgi-bin machinery and provide drivers by themselves could be too much. > A simpler way would be to create a software (mostly set of scripts) that > does all the work and runs a Web server on its own. The software would be > smart enough to fetch kernels and patches from www.kernel.org, all the OEM > needs is to provide the source for the driver and then only watch it > compiling :-) Device Driver Development Kit for Linux. :) I think this is too big project at the moment. For the beginning it would be useful to have tools which would allow to compile Linux newbies drivers for their kernel. The hard thing maybe dealing with many kernel versions - patches usually do not work for all kernels > The most difficult part is to find someone who can lead such project. I am > simply way too busy everywhere to do that... True. I am quite busy right now and I won't have much time before summer 2003 or until I am fired, whatever happens first ... :) But I would be glad to help with part responsible for Red Hat modules. Best Regards, Jacek _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
