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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: dsterba@suse.cz
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, jkosina@suse.cz, jslaby@suse.cz,
	stephen@symmetric.co.nz, benm@symmetric.co.nz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:18:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47500D95.4020009@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071130125555.GA10977@ds.suse.cz>

David Sterba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card, used for 4G
> internet connection.
> The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for
> some time, is actively used and there are currently no
> outstanding bugs.
> 
> I'd like to let the driver pass through LKML and then let it
> queue for 2.6.25.
> 
> Driver is released under GPL, original authorship belongs to
> Symmetric co. Jiri Kosina has fixed some bugs and made it work
> with recent kernels, and I work on improving the code to
> match linux kernel standards.
> 
> When merged, please drop ipwireless_cs.git tree from -mm and
> include the patch instead. Patches should be sent to me and I'll
> push them to mainline via Jeff Garzik's driver tree, if there's
> no objection.
> 
> Driver lives in drivers/char/pcmcia directory, it's a serial
> driver.  I'm not sure if this is the right place, since it's a
> networking driver too and therefore should be in
> drivers/net/pcmcia.
> 
> There will be a wiki with info for users and developers, todo etc.

If the -main- purpose of the hardware is wireless, it should go in via 
John Linville, wireless maintainer...

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-30 12:55 [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card David Sterba
2007-11-30 13:03 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-04 17:33   ` David Sterba
2007-12-07  0:28     ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-11-30 13:11 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-11-30 13:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-11-30 14:20   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-12-01 10:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2007-12-04 17:23   ` David Sterba
2007-12-12 15:08 ` [PATCH V2] " David Sterba
2007-12-17 10:57   ` Jiri Kosina
2007-12-17 11:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-17 12:58       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-12-17 20:44         ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30 15:20 [PATCH] " Michael Robb
2007-11-30 15:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-30 23:49 Michael Robb

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