CHIRP

What are the differences between this and the egzumer driver? If this adds more functionality from the egzumer variant, you need to subclass that radio and only change the things necessary. Duplicating the whole driver is not acceptable, as it creates a big maintenance burden for us. See how the egzumer driver subclasses the base driver and adds its new functionality.

Please describe how your driver differs so I can help you figure out how to subclass.

Also, don't create a french and english driver. Mark your strings like _("foo"). Then update the translation files with make -C chirp/locale clean all and then find/translate them in the fr.po file. That way it will also work for other languages.

As I mentioned, you need to subclass the egzumer or base driver and make your changes incrementally. I'm not interested in putting another whole copy of the driver into the tree that we have to maintain. The UV-K5 community needs to work on organizing the parallel forks of development and get some structure in place. Even if you have diverged from the egzumer way to some degree, there's much that can be shared between the drivers.