Re: [PATCH 2/5] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:02:43AM -0800, Jing Huang wrote:
> > This might take a while.  I can offer to put this driver in the staging
> > tree while you work on it if that would be helpful?
> > 
> > The way the staging tree works is that drivers are held in a separate
> > area (drivers/staging) in the linux kernel while they're being worked
> > on.  The driver can be installed by users while it's in the staging tree
> > (so made use of) but it will taint the kernel with a warning that it's
> > not of linux kernel quality yet.  Once we get an acceptable driver in
> > drivers/staging, I'll move it across to drivers/scsi and remove the
> > taint.
> > 
> > James
> > 
> > 
> 
> This is definitely helpful, thanks James!

Does this mean someone will send me a patch to add this to the
drivers/staging/ tree?  Or should I just grab these patches and use them
to add them to the tree myself (preserving author attributes of course)?

thanks,

greg k-h