update CONTRIBUTING.md

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Stefan Saraev 2014-12-06 21:36:18 +02:00 committed by Stephan Raue
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@ -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 tracker indefinitely. Sending a pull request is a much better way of getting a
particular feature into OpenELEC. 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 ### Reporting build failures
As buildsystem / core packages (toolchain) / random libraries change from time to time, it is required As buildsystem / core packages (toolchain) / random libraries change from time to time, it is required