From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/15] OMAP3 camera driver: V4L2: Adding IOCTL command to get slave private data. Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:35:47 -0700 Message-ID: <200808311435.47689.david-b@pacbell.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.93]:32225 "HELO smtp120.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758545AbYHaVfu (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:35:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: "Aguirre Rodriguez, Sergio Alberto" Cc: "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" On Friday 29 August 2008, Aguirre Rodriguez, Sergio Alberto wrote: > From: Sakari Ailus > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:35:15 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] Adding IOCTL command to get slave private data. > > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus > --- > include/media/v4l2-int-device.h | 6 ++++++ > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Seeing that series of patches from Felipe makes me wonder why these patches shouldn't go *first* to the V4L list ... to help avoid letting code sit for a long time in the OMAP tree without going upstream. This particular patch for example is not OMAP-specific. And in general, the relevant review team for a V4L driver (the rest of this series) is the V4L team not the OMAP team. And if this driver passes their review, why not just merge to mainline right away?