| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver: | 
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|  | 3 | The following people have contributed to this code (in alphabetical | 
|  | 4 | order by last name).  I'm sure this list should be longer, its | 
|  | 5 | difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired. | 
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|  | 7 | Georg Acher <acher@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> | 
|  | 8 | David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> | 
|  | 9 | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> | 
|  | 10 | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@intel.com> | 
|  | 11 | Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com> | 
|  | 12 | Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de> | 
|  | 13 | ham <ham@unsuave.com> | 
|  | 14 | Bradley M Keryan <keryan@andrew.cmu.edu> | 
|  | 15 | Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> | 
|  | 16 | Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> | 
|  | 17 | Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au> | 
|  | 18 | Petko Manlolov <petkan@dce.bg> | 
|  | 19 | David E. Nelson <dnelson@jump.net> | 
|  | 20 | Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> | 
|  | 21 | Bill Ryder <bryder@sgi.com> | 
|  | 22 | Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> | 
|  | 23 | Gregory P. Smith <greg@electricrain.com> | 
|  | 24 | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 
|  | 25 | Roman Weissgaerber <weissg@vienna.at> | 
|  | 26 | <Kazuki.Yasumatsu@fujixerox.co.jp> | 
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|  | 28 | Special thanks to: | 
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|  | 30 | Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es> for starting the | 
|  | 31 | Linux USB driver effort and writing much of the larger uusbd driver. | 
|  | 32 | Much has been learned from that effort. | 
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|  | 34 | The NetBSD & FreeBSD USB developers.  For being on the Linux USB list | 
|  | 35 | and offering suggestions and sharing implementation experiences. | 
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|  | 37 | Additional thanks to the following companies and people for donations | 
|  | 38 | of hardware, support, time and development (this is from the original | 
|  | 39 | THANKS file in Inaky's driver): | 
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|  | 41 | The following corporations have helped us in the development | 
|  | 42 | of Linux USB / UUSBD: | 
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|  | 44 | - 3Com GmbH for donating a ISDN Pro TA and supporting me | 
|  | 45 | in technical questions and with test equipment. I'd never | 
|  | 46 | expect such a great help. | 
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|  | 48 | - USAR Systems provided us with one of their excellent USB | 
|  | 49 | Evaluation Kits. It allows us to test the Linux-USB driver | 
|  | 50 | for compliance with the latest USB specification. USAR | 
|  | 51 | Systems recognized the importance of an up-to-date open | 
|  | 52 | Operating System and supports this project with | 
|  | 53 | Hardware. Thanks!. | 
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|  | 55 | - Thanks to Intel Corporation for their precious help. | 
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|  | 57 | - We teamed up with Cherry to make Linux the first OS with | 
|  | 58 | built-in USB support. Cherry is one of the biggest keyboard | 
|  | 59 | makers in the world. | 
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|  | 61 | - CMD Technology, Inc. sponsored us kindly donating a CSA-6700 | 
|  | 62 | PCI-to-USB Controller Board to test the OHCI implementation. | 
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|  | 64 | - Due to their support to us, Keytronic can be sure that they | 
|  | 65 | will sell keyboards to some of the 3 million (at least) | 
|  | 66 | Linux users. | 
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|  | 68 | - Many thanks to ing büro h doran [http://www.ibhdoran.com]! | 
|  | 69 | It was almost impossible to get a PC backplate USB connector | 
|  | 70 | for the motherboard here at Europe (mine, home-made, was | 
|  | 71 | quite lousy :). Now I know where to acquire nice USB stuff! | 
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|  | 73 | - Genius Germany donated a USB mouse to test the mouse boot | 
|  | 74 | protocol. They've also donated a F-23 digital joystick and a | 
|  | 75 | NetMouse Pro. Thanks! | 
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|  | 77 | - AVM GmbH Berlin is supporting the development of the Linux | 
|  | 78 | USB driver for the AVM ISDN Controller B1 USB. AVM is a | 
|  | 79 | leading manufacturer for active and passive ISDN Controllers | 
|  | 80 | and CAPI 2.0-based software. The active design of the AVM B1 | 
|  | 81 | is open for all OS platforms, including Linux. | 
|  | 82 |  | 
|  | 83 | - Thanks to Y-E Data, Inc. for donating their FlashBuster-U | 
|  | 84 | USB Floppy Disk Drive, so we could test the bulk transfer | 
|  | 85 | code. | 
|  | 86 |  | 
|  | 87 | - Many thanks to Logitech for contributing a three axis USB | 
|  | 88 | mouse. | 
|  | 89 |  | 
|  | 90 | Logitech designs, manufactures and markets | 
|  | 91 | Human Interface Devices, having a long history and | 
|  | 92 | experience in making devices such as keyboards, mice, | 
|  | 93 | trackballs, cameras, loudspeakers and control devices for | 
|  | 94 | gaming and professional use. | 
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|  | 96 | Being a recognized vendor and seller for all these devices, | 
|  | 97 | they have donated USB mice, a joystick and a scanner, as a | 
|  | 98 | way to acknowledge the importance of Linux and to allow | 
|  | 99 | Logitech customers to enjoy support in their favorite | 
|  | 100 | operating systems and all Linux users to use Logitech and | 
|  | 101 | other USB hardware. | 
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|  | 103 | Logitech is official sponsor of the Linux Conference on | 
|  | 104 | Feb. 11th 1999 in Vienna, where we'll will present the | 
|  | 105 | current state of the Linux USB effort. | 
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|  | 107 | - CATC has provided means to uncover dark corners of the UHCI | 
|  | 108 | inner workings with a USB Inspector. | 
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|  | 110 | - Thanks to Entrega for providing PCI to USB cards, hubs and | 
|  | 111 | converter products for development. | 
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|  | 113 | - Thanks to ConnectTech for providing a WhiteHEAT usb to | 
|  | 114 | serial converter, and the documentation for the device to | 
|  | 115 | allow a driver to be written. | 
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|  | 117 | - Thanks to ADMtek for providing Pegasus and Pegasus II | 
|  | 118 | evaluation boards, specs and valuable advices during | 
|  | 119 | the driver development. | 
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|  | 121 | And thanks go to (hey! in no particular order :) | 
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|  | 123 | - Oren Tirosh <orenti@hishome.net>, for standing so patiently | 
|  | 124 | all my doubts'bout USB and giving lots of cool ideas. | 
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|  | 126 | - Jochen Karrer <karrer@wpfd25.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, for | 
|  | 127 | pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice. | 
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|  | 129 | - Edmund Humemberger <ed@atnet.at>, for it's great work on | 
|  | 130 | public relationships and general management stuff for the | 
|  | 131 | Linux-USB effort. | 
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|  | 133 | - Alberto Menegazzi <flash@flash.iol.it> is starting the | 
|  | 134 | documentation for the UUSBD. Go for it! | 
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|  | 136 | - Ric Klaren <ia_ric@cs.utwente.nl> for doing nice | 
|  | 137 | introductory documents (competing with Alberto's :). | 
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|  | 139 | - Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, for it's help on those | 
|  | 140 | itchy bits ... :) | 
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|  | 142 | - Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for | 
|  | 143 | the iMac support, giving improvements and enhancements. | 
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|  | 145 | - Fernando Herrera <fherrera@eurielec.etsit.upm.es> has taken | 
|  | 146 | charge of composing, maintaining and feeding the | 
|  | 147 | long-awaited, unique and marvelous UUSBD FAQ! Tadaaaa!!! | 
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|  | 149 | - Rasca Gmelch <thron@gmx.de> has revived the raw driver and | 
|  | 150 | pointed bugs, as well as started the uusbd-utils package. | 
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|  | 152 | - Peter Dettori <dettori@ozy.dec.com> is uncovering bugs like | 
|  | 153 | crazy, as well as making cool suggestions, great :) | 
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|  | 155 | - All the Free Software and Linux community, the FSF & the GNU | 
|  | 156 | project, the MIT X consortium, the TeX people ... everyone! | 
|  | 157 | You know who you are! | 
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|  | 159 | - Big thanks to Richard Stallman for creating Emacs! | 
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|  | 161 | - The people at the linux-usb mailing list, for reading so | 
|  | 162 | many messages :) Ok, no more kidding; for all your advises! | 
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|  | 164 | - All the people at the USB Implementors Forum for their | 
|  | 165 | help and assistance. | 
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|  | 167 | - Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>, for his advice! (hope you | 
|  | 168 | liked Cibeles' party). | 
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|  | 170 | - Linus Torvalds, for starting, developing and managing Linux. | 
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|  | 172 | - Mike Smith, Craig Keithley, Thierry Giron and Janet Schank | 
|  | 173 | for convincing me USB Standard hubs are not that standard | 
|  | 174 | and that's good to allow for vendor specific quirks on the | 
|  | 175 | standard hub driver. |