From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759431Ab2I2LHg (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:07:36 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:42873 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754230Ab2I2LHf (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:07:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:07:30 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: wei_wang@realsil.com.cn, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Andrew Morton Cc: Phil Turmel , wei_wang@realsil.com.cn, cjb@laptop.org, sameo@linux.intel.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, oakad@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Add modules to support realtek PCIE card reader Message-ID: <20120929110730.GA27797@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , wei_wang@realsil.com.cn, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Andrew Morton , Phil Turmel , cjb@laptop.org, sameo@linux.intel.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, oakad@yahoo.com References: <50664814.30407@turmel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50664814.30407@turmel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:00:04PM -0400, Phil Turmel wrote: > > Wei WANG (3): > > drivers/mfd: Add realtek pcie card reader driver > > drivers/mmc: Add realtek pcie sdmmc host driver > > drivers/memstick: Add realtek pcie memstick host driver > > I have a recent HP Pavilion dv6 with this card reader, 10ec:5209 > (rev 01). I just applied these patches on top of 3.6-rc7. Appears > to work properly with a SanDisk 8GB SDHC card. I don't have a > memstick to test. > > For patches 1 & 2, feel free to add my: > > Tested-by: Philip J. Turmel Ok, good. Thanks for doing that. So, I think that this driver has seen a bunch of testing and reviewing and we might start considering upstreaming it. There are a bunch of laptops integrating those readers and maybe a single three-month-ish -rc period of testing wouldn't hurt before it appears upstream. Now, AFAICT, there is another driver in staging which supports the same or a subset of the cardreaders this driver does so I don't know what Realsil want to do with that. Wei? And since this driver touches multiple drivers/{mfd,mmc,memstick} subdirs, maybe akpm would like to merge it? At least I haven't seen any other maintainers complaining about its design or wanting to take it so ... Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.