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diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers index de3b252e717..c3cca924e94 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers @@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ Allocating Device Numbers ------------------------- Major and minor numbers for block and character devices are allocated -by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently better -known as H Peter Anvin). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This +by the Linux assigned name and number authority (currently this is +Torben Mathiasen). The site is http://www.lanana.org/. This also deals with allocating numbers for devices that are not going to be submitted to the mainstream kernel. +See Documentation/devices.txt for more information on this. -If you don't use assigned numbers then when you device is submitted it will -get given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may +If you don't use assigned numbers then when your device is submitted it will +be given an assigned number even if that is different from values you may have shipped to customers before. Who To Submit Drivers To @@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ Linux 2.2: If the code area has a general maintainer then please submit it to the maintainer listed in MAINTAINERS in the kernel file. If the maintainer does not respond or you cannot find the appropriate - maintainer then please contact Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> + maintainer then please contact the 2.2 kernel maintainer: + Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>. Linux 2.4: The same rules apply as 2.2. The final contact point for Linux 2.4 @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ What Criteria Determine Acceptance Licensing: The code must be released to us under the GNU General Public License. We don't insist on any kind - of exclusively GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver + of exclusive GPL licensing, and if you wish the driver to be useful to other communities such as BSD you may well wish to release under multiple licenses. |