How can you add permanently drivers to the kernel?

[Manoj Iyer]

Dotan,

Yes upstreaming the drivers or atleast getting them into greg-kh
staging tree will be ideal. We also carry opensource drivers that are
not in upstream or staging in our ubuntu-delta tree in the kernel. But
looking briefly at the drivers there are around 8 of them (DVB-S/S2 -
5 drivers and Legend -3 )? and many of them are in beta. This will be
a large piece of code to add to the delta, I will defer the decision
of whether we want to carry it to the kernel release manager. But, if
we decide to carry these drivers will your company be able to test our
kernels and support the drivers ie fix bugs etc ?

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manjo

, Eric Miao <eric.miao at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Dotan Porat <dotanpo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in contact with tevii company ( http://www.tevii.com ).
>> They want to add their drivers permanently to the kernel (and to ubuntu) so
>> users don't need to install the drivers in order to use them (the linux
>> kernel/ubuntu automatically detect it) but they are not sure how they can do
>> it.
>>
>> their drivers today is based on v4l.
>> what they should do?
>>
>
> The best way would be to get the driver upstreamed.
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