linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] usb: Add MA-USB Host kernel module

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2002260946020.3674-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:48:05 -0500 (EST)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Vladimir Stankovic <vladimir.stankovic@...playlink.com>
cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-usb <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        mausb-host-devel <mausb-host-devel@...playlink.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] usb: Add MA-USB Host kernel module

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Vladimir Stankovic wrote:

> Added utility macros, kernel device creation and cleanup, functions for
> handling log formatting and a placeholder module for MA-USB Host device
> driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Stankovic <vladimir.stankovic@...playlink.com>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS                         |  7 +++
>   drivers/usb/Kconfig                 |  2 +
>   drivers/usb/Makefile                |  2 +
>   drivers/usb/mausb_host/Kconfig      | 14 +++++
>   drivers/usb/mausb_host/Makefile     | 13 +++++
>   drivers/usb/mausb_host/mausb_host.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/usb/mausb_host/utils.c      | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/usb/mausb_host/utils.h      | 40 +++++++++++++
>   8 files changed, 253 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/usb/mausb_host/Kconfig
>   create mode 100644 drivers/usb/mausb_host/Makefile
>   create mode 100644 drivers/usb/mausb_host/mausb_host.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/usb/mausb_host/utils.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/usb/mausb_host/utils.h
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 8f27f40d22bb..6088f9aa640a 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -10226,6 +10226,13 @@ W:	https://linuxtv.org
>   S:	Maintained
>   F:	drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio*
>   +MA USB HOST DRIVER
> +M:	Vladimir Stankovic <vladimir.stankovic@...playlink.com>
> +L:	mausb-host-devel@...playlink.com
> +W:	https://www.displaylink.com
> +S:	Maintained
> +F:	drivers/usb/mausb_host/*
> +

You should mention somewhere (certainly in the patch description and in 
MAINTAINERS, maybe other places as well) that MA is an abbreviation for 
Media-Agnostic.  Otherwise people will wonder what on earth it is.

Alan Stern