From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932422AbaKLCBZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:01:25 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:4396 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754413AbaKLCBM (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:01:12 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,365,1413270000"; d="scan'208";a="635413719" Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:01:06 -0800 From: steph To: Greg KH Cc: "Sean O. Stalley" , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH 03/10] added media agnostic (MA) data structures and handling Message-ID: <20141112020106.GA2841@steph-desktop> References: <1415671781-11351-1-git-send-email-stephanie.s.wallick@intel.com> <1415671781-11351-3-git-send-email-stephanie.s.wallick@intel.com> <20141111043821.GD22068@kroah.com> <20141111224222.GB3415@sean.stalley.intel.com> <20141112011438.GA7216@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141112011438.GA7216@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:14:38AM +0900, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:42:22PM -0800, Sean O. Stalley wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:38:21PM +0900, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 06:09:34PM -0800, Stephanie Wallick wrote: > > > Yes, I am holding you to a higher standard than staging code normally > > > is, and yes, it is purely because of the company you work for. But I > > > only do that because your company knows how to do this stuff right, and > > > you have access to the resources and talent to help make this code > > > right. Other people and companies do not have the kind of advantage > > > that you do. > > > > We know we are fortunate to work for a company with so much talent and > > resources and we don't mind being held to a higher standard. We have been > > receiving multiple requests for our host driver and wanted to make it > > available as soon as possible for others to use. We thought putting our > > host driver into staging would be a good way to release it, but realize now > > that it was premature. > > Does the code even work? The number of basic mistakes in it seems to > imply that it doesn't, but I could be mistaken. > What is there works, but not everything in the MA USB Spec has been implemented yet. > > We won't resubmit the driver until a senior kernel developer has signed off on it. > > Good, go kick some of them and get them to review the code, _after_ at > least addressing the issues that the community has raised, you don't > want to waste their time finding the same things we just did :) > Will do! We will most definitely fix the issues raised by the community before having anyone else review the code. We appreciate everyone's time and feedback :) Thanks, Stephanie