From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:45:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:56250 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024206AbZESRpS (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:45:18 +0100 Received: from uucp by smtp.tuxdriver.com with local-rmail (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M6TNH-0005qB-C6; Tue, 19 May 2009 13:45:11 -0400 Received: from linville-t400.local (linville-t400.local [127.0.0.1]) by linville-t400.local (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4JHZ4Po006334; Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:04 -0400 Received: (from linville@localhost) by linville-t400.local (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n4JHZ45h006332; Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:04 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:35:03 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Michael Buesch Cc: Ralf Baechle , matthieu castet , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bc47xx : export ssb_watchdog_timer_set Message-ID: <20090519173503.GD2691@tuxdriver.com> References: <4A11DCBF.9000700@free.fr> <200905191524.20421.mb@bu3sch.de> <20090519170957.GA23711@linux-mips.org> <200905191929.21082.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905191929.21082.mb@bu3sch.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 22829 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: linville@tuxdriver.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:09:57 Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Maybe because I felt drivers/ssb/ was outside my jurisdiction - and unlike > > what alot of people may seem to think I'm not a full time MIPS kernel > > hacker. > > Ok nice. > > > I can deal with SSB patch if you so desire - but I have no experience with > > SSB, so I'd have somebody to rubberstamp non-trivial SSB patches before I > > queue them up. > > **Fwoo.. > [stamp here] > ..mppp** > > > Done. :) > > > I can keep them either in the usual MIPS trees on > > linux-mips.org or I could create a separate linux-ssb tree, depending on > > what seems to be sensible. Also, reading the entry in the maintainers > > file I wonder if netdev is really the list of a choice? > > Yes it is, because the bus is only used on networking devices. > (Ethernet cards, wireless cards, and network routers) > I don't think you need to create a separate tree. ssb is pretty mature. There > won't be that many patches. OK, now I'm confused again -- should I take SSB patches, or is Ralf going to do it? :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.