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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oakad@yahoo.com,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:21:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110322162108.a4b70291.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300621371.15768.11.camel@maxim-laptop>

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:42:51 +0200
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 23:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:09:05 +0200 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> 
> ...
>
> Also, I don't have much time now to improve the ms_block driver till
> this summer (studying).
> The driver works. Yes it has a flaw in regard to scatterlist processing,
> because I didn't find a better way to deal with this monster, but I will
> fix that later. I am not the kind of guy that runs away after a merge.
> It would be nice to just see my code in kernel, code I wrote more that a
> year ago.
> 
> This flaw is purely theoretical. Driver does work.

Lots of code is "flawed but works".  The place for such code is
drivers/staging/ - it gets put in there so the code is available for
those who need the driver and the code is later moved over into
drivers/ once the flaws have been addressed.

So a path forward here would be for us to put the driver and the
sglist extensions into a directory under drivers/staging/.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-04  4:16 [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39 Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-04  4:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-06  7:29   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-06 15:14     ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-06 21:49       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-07  2:20         ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-09 17:24           ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-16  0:44           ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-16  2:35             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-16  4:18               ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-16  4:55                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-17  3:46                   ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-17  3:57                     ` James Bottomley
2011-03-16 22:33                 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-17  6:41                   ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-17 13:17                     ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-18  0:59                     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2011-03-04  4:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-04  4:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] memstick: Add driver for Ricoh R5C592 card reader Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-16  4:25   ` Alex Dubov
2011-03-04  4:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] memstick: add Alex Dubov to MAINTAINERS of the memstick core Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-12 16:23 ` [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39 Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-15 20:00   ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-15 21:04     ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-16  0:25       ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-20  3:09       ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-20  6:47         ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-20 11:42           ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-22 13:01             ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-22 23:21             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-03-23  0:59               ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-23  3:42                 ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 15:30                   ` Maxim Levitsky
2011-03-24  3:27                     ` Alex Dubov

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