linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] ipwireless

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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:22:22 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:57:46 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote:

> [ CC list trimmed ] 

often a bad idea...

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, David Sterba wrote:
> 
> > Changelog:
> > * files moved to ipwireless/, ipwireless_cs_ stripped from filenames
> > * _cs stripped from driver name
> > * kmalloc checks
> > * sync irq during shutdown
> > * removed /proc code, converted to module params
> > 
> > When merged, please drop ipwireless_cs.git tree from -mm and
> > include the patch instead.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > David Sterba
> > 
> > Rewieved-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Martel <benm@...metric.co.nz>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <stephen@...metric.co.nz>
> > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS                                     |    8 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig                     |    9 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/Makefile                    |    2 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/Makefile         |   10 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c       | 1784 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.h       |   63 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/main.c           |  496 ++++++
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/main.h           |   70 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/network.c        |  513 ++++++
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/network.h        |   54 
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/setup_protocol.h |  108 +
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c            |  687 +++++++++
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.h            |   48 
> >  13 files changed, 3852 insertions(+)
> 
> Andrew, what is your position on merging this into your 2.6.25 queue 
> please? David has fixed all the issues that came up during review, so it 
> seems to be that it's time for the driver to be merged during the upcoming 
> merge window.
> 
> If you take it, I am perfectly fine with you dropping the 
> ipwireless_cs git tree from -mm lineup.
> 

I'd have thought that you'd merge it into git-ipwireless_cs.patch and that
you would then take care of merging it into mainline at an appropriate
time?

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