writing usb drivers under 8.x

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Jim Bryant wrote:

> also, i'd like to hook up with a committer, as i'd like to have the finished 
> drivers in the official tree.
>
> both devices (the temper, and the imon) have uses suited to both 
> home/workstation use, as well as server use, in fact my imon is installed in 
> orb, which is a home multi-server (music, books, tv shows, movies, mysql, 
> samba, etc), and i intend to use the imon vfd as a tool to get server info 
> without having to login to the server (using the knob/button to select from a 
> menu on the vfd), and it has uses in both home and enterprise server realms.
>
> i think the source tree would benefit from having both drivers once 
> completed.

Agreed, and I would also like to see a working LIRC module.