Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965483AbXBMJsk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:48:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965487AbXBMJsk (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:48:40 -0500 Received: from iona.labri.fr ([147.210.8.143]:37758 "EHLO iona.labri.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965483AbXBMJsj (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:48:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:48:37 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Pierre Ossman Cc: Sascha Sommer , Jiri Slaby , LKML , rmk+mmc@arm.linux.org.uk, Elladan Subject: Re: Experimental driver for Ricoh Bay1Controller SD Card readers Message-ID: <20070213094837.GA3646@implementation.labri.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Pierre Ossman , Sascha Sommer , Jiri Slaby , LKML , rmk+mmc@arm.linux.org.uk, Elladan References: <200701070032.27234.saschasommer@freenet.de> <45A0C3A7.2040506@gmail.com> <200702112122.38440.saschasommer@freenet.de> <45D150FD.8080901@drzeus.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <45D150FD.8080901@drzeus.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 980 Lines: 22 Pierre Ossman, le Tue 13 Feb 2007 06:47:41 +0100, a ?crit : > Sascha Sommer wrote: > > I still consider this driver experimental, but without documentation this is > > probably not going to change anytime soon. > > The question is now what I should do with the driver? > > Is it worth to be included in the kernel? If yes where and against what > > kernelversion should I send the patch? > > That's up to you. The most important thing for any part of the kernel is > that it must have a maintainer. So if you are ready to keep the driver > up to date and handle the support requests that show, then you should > really submit it. You can mark your Kconfig entry with EXPERIMENTAL for letting people know about the status :) Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/