Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: implement autosuspend

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:14:45AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > > > I think you forgot that I use quilt for my trees :)
> > > 
> > > There is a way of doing this in quilt.  I think you checkout my tree,
> > > add the patch and some type of annotation for the top so linux-next
> > > knows when to pull it in.
> > 
> > Yeah, there is a way, but it's a major pain and a divergant way of
> > handling my tree from what I do today :(
> > 
> > > You just want me to put it in my tree, don't you ... ?
> > 
> > I do :)
> > 
> > Please add an:
> > 	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > to it and have fun :)
> > 
> > If you really don't want to, just let me know and I'll handle it and the
> > merge issues myself, that's what the subsystem maintainer is for...
> 
> If James is willing to take the patch, that's fine.
> 
> If not, it can go into Greg's tree without any serious effect.  The 
> nice thing about this patch is that it will build okay without the 
> SCSI changes -- it just won't work properly if autosuspend is enabled 
> for a usb-storage device.  Since the default is to leave autosuspend 
> disabled, people won't get into trouble unless they deliberately try 
> to.

Ah, I thought it would break my build.  Ok, I'll take it then, James,
don't worry about it.

thanks,

greg k-h