netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] Bluetooth: hidp: Add support for hidraw HIDIOCGFEATURE and HIDIOCSFEATURE

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1006291047560.13809@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:50:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ospite@...denti.unina.it, alan@...nal11.us, marcel@...tmann.org,
	mdpoole@...ilus.org, hadess@...ess.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Bluetooth: hidp: Add support for hidraw HIDIOCGFEATURE
 and HIDIOCSFEATURE

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, David Miller wrote:

> >> This patch adds support or getting and setting feature reports for bluetooth
> >> HID devices from HIDRAW.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
> >> ---
> > 
> > Ping.
> 
> We effectively don't have a bluetooth maintainer at the current point in 
> time.  I've tried to let patches sit for a while hoping the listed 
> maintainer would do something, at least occaisionally, but that simply 
> isn't happening.

Frankly, I don't understand what exactly the current situation with 
in-kernel bluetooth stack is anyway. 

What is the relation between what we have in net/bluetooth and the tree at 
[1], which seems to be quite actively developed?

> So I'll just pick patches up directly as I find time to review them, but 
> I have to warn that for me it's going to be done in a very low priority 
> way because I really don't find bluetooth all that exciting. :-)

If needed, I can at least take over the net/bluetooth/hidp part, as I 
maintain the rest of the HID code anyway.

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=bluetooth/bluez.git;a=summary

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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