Re: [openwince-list] Request for membership in openwince project

[Daniel S. <da...@et...>]

Marcel Telka wrote:
> 
> Napísané dňa 2002.10.24 11:51, (autor: Daniel Samek):
> 
>> Marcel Telka wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Napísané dňa 2002.10.22 14:41, (autor: Daniel Samek):
>>>
>>>>>> Name: usb
>>>>>> Summary: usb driver
>>>>>> License: GPL
>>>>>> Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>>>>>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb/
>>>>>> CVS module: usb
>>>>>> Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Your usb driver will be platform and hardware independent?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There are different dependencies for each part:
>>>> 1) USB to serial interface is hardware and platform independent.
>>>> 2) USB driver is only hardware dependent (PXA-250 processor - USB 
>>>> controler)
>>>> 3) USB attach/detach detection driver is platform (dependency on 
>>>> GPIO used to USB detection) and hardware (PXA-250 processor GPIO 
>>>> processing) dependent.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please select another project name/CVS module for your driver, 
>>> because "usb" is platform/hardware/architecture/... independent 
>>> (universal) name. If I understand your proposal correct, your driver 
>>> would be platform and hardware dependent...
>>>
>>
>> To make the usb project open and modular I would split it to three 
>> subprojects. Here comes ther description:
>>
>> Name:  usb_cable
>> Summary: usb cable driver
>> License: GPL with an exception available at 
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>> Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb/cable
>> CVS module: usb/cable
>> Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>>
>> Name:  usb_driver
>> Summary: usb driver
>> License: GPL with an exception available at 
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>> Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb/driver
>> CVS module: usb/driver
>> Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>>
>> Name:  usb_to_serial
>> Summary: usb to serial driver
>> License: GPL with an exception available at 
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>> Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb/usb_to_serial
>> CVS module: usb/usb_to_serial
>> Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
>>
>> Then the final project which covers those three subprojects is following:
>>
>> Name:  usb
>> Summary: usb support
>> License: GPL with an exception available at 
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
>> Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
> 
> 
> Please use your homepage, not e-mail address... Thanks.
> 

I do not understand exactly what u mean. Why is in the Maintainer field 
my homepage url required?

>> Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb
>> CVS module: usb
>> Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
> 
> 
> IMHO there is no requirement for this splitting. Internal structure of 
> your module is free. So you can split it internally to more (or less) 
> subdirectories, files, etc...
> 
> OTOH, if you need this splitting at the top level, it is possible too. 
> But, because you are new to the openwince project, please start only one 
> subproject now. Thanks.
> 

Ok. I change subproject name:

Name: wince_usb
Summary: usb driver for wince
License: GPL with an exception available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
Maintainer: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)
Homepage: http://openwince.sourceforge.net/usb/driver
CVS module: wince_usb
Developers: Daniel Samek (di...@us...)

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