From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [patch 3/2] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - add writew_be for data push Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:28:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <20080903073629.GD4104@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <48E3B617.4050904@freenet.de> <48E7A5D6.3020903@freenet.de> <48EB266E.3070708@freenet.de> <48ECE5DA.2090302@freenet.de> <48EF9ECE.40505@freenet.de> <48F0ECC9.6050902@freenet.de> <48F679D1.60709@freenet.de> <49085A7A.3030006@freenet.de> <4909C12C.4020009@freenet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Sender: geert@linux-m68k.org In-Reply-To: Resent-Message-ID: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: To: Michael Schmitz Cc: "Frank P. Szymanski" , Debian GNU/Linux m68k , smarenka@debian.org, Linux/m68k List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Looking at the SCSI driver in 2.6.26, it's no surprise - the error handling > > > > update that I did for 2.6.18 is not included in Geert's current 2.6 patch > > > > series. Looks like I botched the patch submission way back when. > > > > > > It's a pity. You put so much work in it but none of your patches > > > (EtherNEC, EtherNAT or SCSI) got it into a current kernel. > > > > > > Is there a reason why? > > > > When Michael thinks they're ready, he can submit them to netdev or linux-scsi > > ;-) > > I'm happy for them to live in linux-m68k :-) > > EtherNEC and EtherNAT are 'ready' in the sense they are working reliably. They > are by no means 'ready in the sense that mainline kernel maintainers would be > happy to take my patches. Or should we get them into linux-staging? http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Introducing_the_Linux_Staging_Tree Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds