From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754778Ab0C3W7r (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:47 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39397 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753762Ab0C3W7o (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:45:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "L. Alberto Gim??nez" Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, wfp5p@virginia.edu, bzolnier@gmail.com, alan@linux.intel.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: Add new driver ipheth Message-ID: <20100330214509.GA1388@suse.de> References: <1269984864-28159-1-git-send-email-agimenez@sysvalve.es> <1269984864-28159-2-git-send-email-agimenez@sysvalve.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1269984864-28159-2-git-send-email-agimenez@sysvalve.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:34:24PM +0200, L. Alberto Gim??nez wrote: > Add new driver to use tethering with an iPhone device to the staging tree. Why the staging tree? What is wrong with the driver that it needs to go there and not to the main kernel tree? Any driver added to the staging tree needs a TODO file describing what needs to be fixed with it, and who to send the patches to. Did you write this driver? If not, please put a "From:" line that shows who did write it. thanks, greg k-h