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by metafex 1652 days ago
I hope they'll try to upstream some of those drivers at least. I've written driver code for some parts before and I was better off not even looking at their code and only going by the datasheet. Except when the code worked around silicon bugs not mentioned in the errata. Fun times.
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The goal is to always upstream every driver (and we do a pretty good job at that). Depending on the lineage of the software (who developed it, what they developed it for) - it may not be possible to meet the kernel coding guidelines - so we don't send those upstream.

Disclaimer - I work at ADI.

Most of the drivers in that list are already upstreamed.
Or Linux could provide a somewhat stable driver interface.