devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4

[chandra shekar]

On 10/3/07, devel-request at linuxdriverproject.org
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>    1. An existing USB driver needs to be cleaned up ,   modified and
>       submitted as per as standard coding style followed by     Linux org.
>       (chandra shekar)
>    2. Re: [1/5] i2c device project (Jason Mcmullan)
>    3. Re: [1/5] i2c device project (Ben Warren)
>    4. Re: [4/5] High-speed PCI data capture project (Vijay Kumar)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:30:48 +0530
> From: "chandra shekar" <ab.chandrashekar at gmail.com>
> Subject: An existing USB driver needs to be cleaned up ,        modified and
>         submitted as per as standard coding style followed by   Linux org.
> To: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
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> Hi,
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> I'm very much interested in doing projects on Linux drivers,
> I have basic knowledge on USB driver.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:50:24 -0400
> From: Jason Mcmullan <jason.mcmullan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [1/5] i2c device project
> To: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
> Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
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> Oh oh! Me me!
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> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 21:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Summary:  At least 3 drivers for a single manufacturer, all i2c devices
> >
> > Description:
> >       A company has a number of i2c devices for which they need drivers
> >       written.  These devices are:
> >               - low power programmable waveform generator
> >               - programmable temperature sensor
> >               - single cell li ion battery manager
> >       They are on a embedded system.
> >
> > Estimated skills needed:
> >       Experience writing i2c drivers.  Embedded development
> >       (cross-compiling, downloading system images, etc) is also a
> >       plus.  This is not a good "first driver" type project.
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:54:39 -0400
> From: "Ben Warren" <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [1/5] i2c device project
> To: "Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com>
> Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
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> On 10/2/07, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > Summary:  At least 3 drivers for a single manufacturer, all i2c devices
> >
> > Description:
> >         A company has a number of i2c devices for which they need drivers
> >         written.  These devices are:
> >                 - low power programmable waveform generator
> >                 - programmable temperature sensor
> >                 - single cell li ion battery manager
> >         They are on a embedded system.
> >
> > Estimated skills needed:
> >         Experience writing i2c drivers.  Embedded development
> >         (cross-compiling, downloading system images, etc) is also a
> >         plus.  This is not a good "first driver" type project.
> >
> >
>
> I've written a few I2C drivers in the past year and can help out here.
>  In addition, given chip samples, I can debug on a PowerPC platform.
>
> regards,
> Ben
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:01:53 +0530 (IST)
> From: "Vijay Kumar" <vijaykumar at bravegnu.org>
> Subject: Re: [4/5] High-speed PCI data capture project
> To: "Greg KH" <greg at kroah.com>
> Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> Message-ID: <50309.59.92.49.112.1191349913.squirrel at www.bravegnu.org>
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> Greg KH writes:
>  > Summary: High-speed data capture PCI device driver
>  [clip]
>  > Estimated skills needed:
>  >      PCI driver experience, DMA allocations in host memory, the UIO
>  >      interface in the kernel are all things that will be needed here.
>  >      This is not a good "first driver" type project.
>
> Hi Greg,
> I am interested in helping with this project.
>
> I have a good knowledge of the PCI bus. I have worked on MPC8560 MCC
> driver (not in mainline) and NAND chip driver (plus a small nandsim
> patch in mainline). I am confident that I can handle the project. If
> you see me fit, do sign me up for this project.
>
> Regards,
> Vijay
>
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