Hi, We have a driver that we would like to get included into the CentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
Thanks, Jason
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:42 -0700, Jason Gross wrote:
We have a driver that we would like to get included into theCentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
If it can be compiled as a module against the CentOS kernel, it could be included as a kmod package.
With kind regards, Daniel de Kok
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:42 -0700, Jason Gross wrote:
We have a driver that we would like to get included into theCentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
If you mean that it gets included in one of our "Extra" repositories, then we can do that with no problem. (Our extras or centosplus repos)
If you would like it to get into the BOOTING kernel that we have on our release ISOs then the only way is to get it included in the RHEL kernel upstream and have them added it to the specific version of RHEL as we do not patch or otherwise change the modules built or loaded on our release kernel.
If it can be compiled as a module against the CentOS kernel, it could be included as a kmod package.
kmod probably the absolute best way to get it done (built outside the kernel tree and against the /lib/<version>/build), as it allows us to add it to all our kernels without patching. It does not get on our install CDs this way however.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Johnny, Thanks for your reply. I probably should have been more clear, though I think you answered my questions. We would prefer to get it included on the install cd's such that the customer would have the option of installing them when running the regular installer as one of the regular packages. So, if my understanding is correct, to be included as a package that the user may choose when installing this needs to be pushed upstream to redhat, and to be included in the extras, I need only submit it to CentOS?
Thanks, Jason
On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Daniel de Kok wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 17:42 -0700, Jason Gross wrote:
We have a driver that we would like to get included into theCentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
If you mean that it gets included in one of our "Extra" repositories, then we can do that with no problem. (Our extras or centosplus repos)
If you would like it to get into the BOOTING kernel that we have on our release ISOs then the only way is to get it included in the RHEL kernel upstream and have them added it to the specific version of RHEL as we do not patch or otherwise change the modules built or loaded on our release kernel.
If it can be compiled as a module against the CentOS kernel, it could be included as a kmod package.
kmod probably the absolute best way to get it done (built outside the kernel tree and against the /lib/<version>/build), as it allows us to add it to all our kernels without patching. It does not get on our install CDs this way however.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:42:14PM -0700, Jason Gross wrote:
We have a driver that we would like to get included into the CentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
Get it into the mainline Linux kernel. Then it will be available everywhere. Once you've done that, you may be able to convince Red Hat to backport it to older RHEL versions.
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:13:13 -0400 Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org wrote:
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:42:14PM -0700, Jason Gross wrote:
We have a driver that we would like to get included into the CentOS distribution (and others). How would we go about getting it in? We're currently planning to license it under GPL.
Get it into the mainline Linux kernel. Then it will be available everywhere. Once you've done that, you may be able to convince Red Hat to backport it to older RHEL versions.
See also http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
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