From: Jan Kiszka (jan.kiszkaweb.de)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2007 - 09:02:45 CST

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Andre Puschmann wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I like it a lot to see how development is going on.
> Merging this driver (or the rewritten replacement) in mainline-kernel is
> a tough goal, hope you guys get this done!
> When Eric and me started hacking the legacy driver back in June '06,
> there was no chance to achieve this goal, since the code quality of the
> driver was so bad ..

Besides the code quality and lacking conformance to latest Linux
subsystem changes, my major concern is that too much stuff is inside the
driver instead of being part of the user space library. So the current
idea for o2scr 2.x is to adopt significant parts of libtowitoko and
tweak the kernel side as long as it reasonably fits to this (or an
adopted) low-level interface. The result should be a kernel driver that
is much smaller (all synchronous protocol stuff would be gone e.g.) and
thus easier to merge. At the same time you gain more understanding about
what is really needed and what is cruft in the current driver.

If you have time & hardware & motivation, you are welcome to join this
effort, even by "just" testing and reporting issues!

Jan

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