[korg]help: How to submit a kernel driver on kernel.org.

[Aaron.Chen 陈俊杰]

Hi Paul&Jerome,

Thank you very much for your guide. It's a great help for me.

But I still have a little problem with the patch thing. I'm not familiar with the git.
1.Shall I need to do the clone and get the source location and target directory first? 
2.Where is the source location and target directory?
3.Our driver has pass the customer's test from kernel version 2.6.5 to 3.0.0, So what shall I do to submit a driver cover all these kernel version.
4.or just email you the source code and tell you the changes?

I'm looking forward your re-guide. Thank you so much.

Regards
Aaron


-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Paul Menzel [mailto:paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net] 
发送时间: 2012年3月2日 5:50
收件人: Jerome Glisse
抄送: Aaron.Chen 陈俊杰; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
主题: Re: [korg]help: How to submit a kernel driver on kernel.org.

Dear Aaron,


thank you for contacting the list. We are looking forward to your patches.

Am Donnerstag, den 01.03.2012, 14:05 -0500 schrieb Jerome Glisse:
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 14:28 +0800, Aaron.Chen 陈俊杰 wrote:

> > I’m from Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS:SIMO) Shanghai Office. We have developed a kernel driver for all our graphics chips. We really want to know the way to submit a kernel driver to kernel.org. I have received a document file which is on http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers, but I still cannot find out a place to where our drivers should be uploaded. The document say “please submit it to the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file.”So where can I find the maintainer and what to do next. Would you please help me. Thank you so much.

> All you need to do is send the kernel patch to 
> dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> So they can get reviewed. Once they are reviewed, and if they comply 
> with the requirement, the DRM maintainer (aka Dave) will integrate 
> your patch in his tree and at some point ask Linus to pull them.
> 
> There is no ftp, or http web submission, everything is done through 
> public mailing list.

if you are familiar with Git you should send a patch formatted using `git format-patch -15`. Replace the 15 by the number of commits you need patches for.

You can take a look in the archive. drm/exynos and drm/omap are good examples – I think – on how to get new drivers submitted.


Thanks,

Paul


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