From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751293AbXBMLl5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:41:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751295AbXBMLl5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:41:57 -0500 Received: from mout2.freenet.de ([194.97.50.155]:59816 "EHLO mout2.freenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbXBMLl4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:41:56 -0500 From: Sascha Sommer To: Pierre Ossman Subject: Re: Experimental driver for Ricoh Bay1Controller SD Card readers Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:42:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Jiri Slaby , LKML , rmk+mmc@arm.linux.org.uk, Elladan , Samuel Thibault References: <200701070032.27234.saschasommer@freenet.de> <200702112122.38440.saschasommer@freenet.de> <45D150FD.8080901@drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <45D150FD.8080901@drzeus.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702131242.12507.saschasommer@freenet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tuesday 13 February 2007 06:47, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Sascha Sommer wrote: > > I still consider this driver experimental, but without documentation this > > is probably not going to change anytime soon. > > The question is now what I should do with the driver? > > Is it worth to be included in the kernel? If yes where and against what > > kernelversion should I send the patch? > > That's up to you. The most important thing for any part of the kernel is > that it must have a maintainer. So if you are ready to keep the driver > up to date and handle the support requests that show, then you should > really submit it. > > Patches should always be sent against the current version of the kernel > (i.e. git HEAD). Usually the latest packaged release will also do. > > (Note that I haven't had time to review your latest version of the driver) > Yes, I'm going to maintain it. There are still some bugs that need to be fixed first, though. I also got a mail from someone else how also did some reverseengineering work for this reader. I'm waiting for his feedback before I will submit a patch that can be included. Thanks. Sascha