Re: [PATCH] [2.4] ATM driver for the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB DSL modem

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:33:58PM +0200, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > Because of these dependencies (and the fact that the maintainer doesn't
> > want it added yet) I will not apply this patch.
> That's ok (right now). Application of it should only be considered after
> discussion here and after the maintainer responds.
> 
> > Sending this to linux-usb-devel might be a better place, instead of
> > bothering linux-kernel.
> Should I have sent the first two patches to linux-kernel, the ATM SAR to
> linux-atm-general and the SpeedTouch driver to linux-usb-devel?
> How should I have handled the fact that the SpeedTouch and ATM SAR
> patches depend on main kernel patches and the fact that the SpeedTouch
> patch includes ATM code (since it is for an ATM device attached to the
> USB bus)?

Well, if you want a ATM patch added, you need to send it to the ATM
maintainer (but I don't know if there is one right now or not.)  And if
you want a USB driver added to the USB tree, you need to send it to the
USB maintainer.  So cross-posting to all of these lists is probably a
good idea :)

greg k-h