From 73d6987c066c715aad9fca8842026bbfe74d297a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Saraev Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 21:36:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update CONTRIBUTING.md --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index f64e65a312..573c43fca2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ Feature requests are great, but they usually end up lying around the issue tracker indefinitely. Sending a pull request is a much better way of getting a particular feature into OpenELEC. +Please dont ask us to add 3rdparty drivers unless you are the maintainer/developer of the driver, +we have no manpower to support a non-mainlined kernel driver for your hardware. +However, OpenELEC comes with minimal set of kernel drivers enabled, if you are sure that your hardware +is supported in mainline kernel, feel free to send us a Pull Request to enable it in our +kernel defconfigs. We are always happy to support known-working hardware. + ### Reporting build failures As buildsystem / core packages (toolchain) / random libraries change from time to time, it is required