From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] tsl2563: move tsl2563 to drivers/hwmon
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:26:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015102604.27c4d707@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810141444.51894.david-b@pacbell.net>
Hi Felipe, David,
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:44:51 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > I'd say that if it goes to the "wrong" place and doesn't bother anyone,
> > will get forgotten. Just like the whole bunch of other drivers sitting
> > in linux-omap...
You're not merging drivers upstream just to bother people, are you?
There's nothing wrong with drivers being forgotten. Each driver gets
the level of attention it deserves depending on how broken and useful
it is.
> I thought the point was to have them sit in mainline. ;)
>
> > Funny that most of such drivers are for nokia tablets :-p
>
> Some of these drivers are first-of-a-kind, so these questions wouldn't
> necessarily have come up before. That's one of the obstacles to
> mainline merge that isn't always acknowledged.
Well, as you said before, it seems we have drivers/misc exactly for
that case.
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 13:01 [PATCH 0/8] updtes to few nokia drivers Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 1/8] i2c: lp5521: remove dead code Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 2/8] i2c: lp5521: cosmetic fixes Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 3/8] lp5521: move to drivers/leds Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 4/8] leds: lp5521: simplify mode setting Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 5/8] leds: lp5521: register separate leds Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 6/8] tsl2563: move tsl2563 to drivers/hwmon Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 7/8] input: lm8323: get rid of global pdata pointer Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:01 ` [PATCH 8/8] input: tsc2005: move to gpiolib Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 13:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] tsl2563: move tsl2563 to drivers/hwmon Jean Delvare
2008-10-14 13:52 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 14:14 ` Jean Delvare
2008-10-14 14:38 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 16:00 ` David Brownell
2008-10-14 21:20 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 21:44 ` David Brownell
2008-10-14 21:50 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-15 8:26 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2008-10-14 15:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] leds: lp5521: register separate leds David Brownell
2008-10-14 17:09 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 15:53 ` [PATCH 3/8] lp5521: move to drivers/leds David Brownell
2008-10-14 17:11 ` Felipe Balbi
2008-10-14 17:19 ` David Brownell
2008-10-14 17:32 ` Felipe Balbi
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