Re: [PATCH 1/2] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks

[Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>]

--- On Sat, 11/12/10, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> 
> > Takashi, you are welcome to look at my version of
> code, the one that
> > Alex mostly refuses to merge.
> > It is located at http://gitorious.org/ricoh-kernel/ricoh-kernel
> > (This contains everything I did for ricoh and
> jmicron)
> > Try this code and see if MS standard works for you in
> parallel mode.
> > 
> > If it doesn't, every module contains built-in
> debugging, activated by
> > debug=1 or 2 module parameter, yet another thing Alex
> refused to
> > consider.

This should be done through a common kernel infrastructure.
It was added there for a reason.

> 
> It's an unfortunate situation.  I see the point Alex
> mentioned (small
> changes first), but honestly, I don't understand why this
> kind of
> patches has to be blocked, too.  It's basically an
> addition for the
> support of missing device types.
> 

I never said I have any opposition to supporting other device types.
My proposal was, from the very beginning, to merge new drivers first,
than discuss changes to the existing stuff.