From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752752AbZBNP7k (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751396AbZBNP7b (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:59:31 -0500 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:60800 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967AbZBNP7a (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:59:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [0/3] lenovo-sl-laptop : new driver for drivers/staging From: Marcel Holtmann To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alexandre Rostovtsev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090214145256.GA7071@infradead.org> References: <20090214051214.359d4fd4@leftboat.lan> <20090214145256.GA7071@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:59:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1234627163.7293.196.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, > > Patches against 2.6.29-rc5 will be in following emails. > > Please submit it to the kernel proper, not the staging tree. Also > please just submit it in one patch instead of the split. I can only second that. This is not a driver that belongs anywhere near the staging tree. It should be instead sent to the ACPI mailing list for review. The staging tree should _NOT_ be used as a shortcut for upstream inclusion. Regards Marcel