atmel drivers in the main distro?

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:49:19PM +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:32:00 -0600
> > From: Steven Pritchard <steve at silug.org>
> > To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: atmel drivers in the main distro?
> > Reply-To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:30:50AM +1100, msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au
> > wrote:
> >> Is there a reason the atmel wireless drivers are not distributed with
> >> the
> >> main Fedora disto?
> >
> > There are a lot of wireless drivers that aren't integrated into the
> > kernel.  I'd suggest bugging the upstream developers about getting
> > their driver into Linus's tree.
> >
> > In the mean time, there are other open-source wireless drivers in
> > fedora.us QA (at least my kernel-module-hostap package and a
> > kernel-module-prism54 package I noticed yesterday).  I'd love to see
> > more.  (Actually, I'd love to see the existing ones make it through QA
> > even more.  :-)
> >
> > Steve
> 
> It certainly makes sense for the these to be rolled into the 2.4 and 2.6
> kernels.
> 
> So what the best route to do this? How do I let whoever know that the
> atmel drivers WorksForMe?

Tell the driver authors to submit them to the proper kernel maintainers.
It is well documentated how to do this (see
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and Documentation/SubmittingDrivers in
the Linux source tree.)

Good luck,

greg k-h