From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756179Ab2I2P3r (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:29:47 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:59432 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754143Ab2I2P3p (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:29:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:29:42 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Chris Ball Cc: wei_wang@realsil.com.cn, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Andrew Morton , Phil Turmel , 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: <20120929152942.GA11412@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Chris Ball , wei_wang@realsil.com.cn, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Andrew Morton , Phil Turmel , 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> <20120929110730.GA27797@liondog.tnic> <87d315osjm.fsf@octavius.laptop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d315osjm.fsf@octavius.laptop.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 Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > 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 > > I think you've missed the mails -- Alex Dubov has acked the memstick > portion, Samuel Ortiz has said he'll push the MFD driver for 3.7, > and I've pushed the MMC driver into mmc-next for 3.7. So, I think > we should merge it. I don't think we need akpm, since there are no > build-time dependencies involved. Great, all is taken care of then. Only the staging driver remains, I believe the CONFIG_RTS_PSTOR one. Wei? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.