From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] tsl2563: move tsl2563 to drivers/hwmon Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:26:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20081015102604.27c4d707@hyperion.delvare> References: <1223989300-27294-1-git-send-email-felipe.balbi@nokia.com> <200810140900.55697.david-b@pacbell.net> <20081014212034.GA31842@frodo> <200810141444.51894.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zone0.gcu-squad.org ([212.85.147.21]:15392 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671AbYJOI0S (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:26:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200810141444.51894.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Felipe Balbi , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton 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