From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756692Ab3GKVWI (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:22:08 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42626 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753790Ab3GKVWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:22:06 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:22:04 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, axboe@kernel.dk, oakad@yahoo.com, tj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks Message-Id: <20130711142204.6c1fc4c260676da6cad93be7@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1373502517.14147.0.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <1373292716.32554.5.camel@maxim-laptop> <1373316896-6045-1-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1373316896-6045-2-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1373502517.14147.0.camel@maxim-laptop> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:28:37 +0300 Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 23:54 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > Based partially on MS standard spec quotes from Alex Dubov. > > > > As any code that works with user data this driver isn't > > recommended to use to write cards that contain valuable data. > > > > It tries its best though to avoid data corruption > > and possible damage to the card. > > > > Tested on MS DUO 64 MB card on Ricoh R592 card reader. > > (top-posting repaired. Please don't do that). > Any update? You sent a large patch in the middle of the 3.11 merge window, when nobody is looking at large new patches. I have it saved away for consideration after -rc1.