From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [PATCH] bc47xx : export ssb_watchdog_timer_set Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:29:20 +0200 Message-ID: <200905191929.21082.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <4A11DCBF.9000700@free.fr> <200905191524.20421.mb@bu3sch.de> <20090519170957.GA23711@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , matthieu castet , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ralf Baechle Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:54508 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753129AbZESRaK (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 13:30:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090519170957.GA23711@linux-mips.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:09:57 Ralf Baechle wrote: > Maybe because I felt drivers/ssb/ was outside my jurisdiction - and unlike > what alot of people may seem to think I'm not a full time MIPS kernel > hacker. Ok nice. > I can deal with SSB patch if you so desire - but I have no experience with > SSB, so I'd have somebody to rubberstamp non-trivial SSB patches before I > queue them up. **Fwoo.. [stamp here] ..mppp** Done. :) > I can keep them either in the usual MIPS trees on > linux-mips.org or I could create a separate linux-ssb tree, depending on > what seems to be sensible. Also, reading the entry in the maintainers > file I wonder if netdev is really the list of a choice? Yes it is, because the bus is only used on networking devices. (Ethernet cards, wireless cards, and network routers) I don't think you need to create a separate tree. ssb is pretty mature. There won't be that many patches. -- Greetings, Michael.