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by megous 1660 days ago
I randomly clicked through the list, out of 10 drivers, 3 were written by independent devs, 5 by comapnies they acquired, and the rest by AD.

This looks just like some list of existing drivers, regardless of who wrote them.

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Yes - the list on https://wiki.analog.com/linux is a consolidated list: - ADI devices (there is only one ADI, when a company is acquired, they are integrated - the group inside ADI that writes drivers doesn't care what the part prefix is) - internal ADI development and upstreamed/mainlined drivers that have been done by our customers / other contributors

It was done this way to try to make it easier for people to find the drivers, rather than rolling through kernel source. The Majority of the drivers are upstream (including the ones ADI writes), or are in process of going upstream, but some drivers - because of their development flow - will never meet upstream kernel coding guidelines.

[Disclaimer - I work at ADI].

Perfect. :)