Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:09:05 +0200 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:00:10 +0200
> > Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 18:23 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 06:16 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is a repost of my patches for 2.6.39 inclusion, which I hope not to
> > > > > miss this time.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I addressed the comments on the scatterlist issues.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Andrew, please note that my richoh memstick driver is standalone, unchanged from previos versions
> > > > > has many users which use the version I posted at ubuntu's Launchpad and happy with it.
> > > > > Please include it regardless of other patches.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The other half of my work is support for legacy memorysticks which consists of 2 patches,
> > > > > first that adds few functions to scatterlist.c, and the other patch that adds the driver.
> > > > > Driver is also stable and tested.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > 	Maxim Levitsky
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Any update?
> > > 
> > > Any update?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm hoping that Alex will soon have time to (re)review these patches.
> 
> Andrew Morton, what the current state now?
> 

Technical discussion is ongoing.  James has described what appears to
be the architecturally preferred way of implementing this and there is
as yet no followup to his suggestion.