Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760618AbXEJMNJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:13:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753568AbXEJMM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:12:56 -0400 Received: from neon.samage.net ([85.17.153.66]:59644 "EHLO neon.samage.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753395AbXEJMM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 08:12:56 -0400 Message-ID: <1358.81.207.0.53.1178799167.squirrel@secure.samage.net> In-Reply-To: <20070510013855.GA3402@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20070510013855.GA3402@havoc.gtf.org> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:12:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [git patch] move USB net drivers to drivers/net From: "Indan Zupancic" To: "Jeff Garzik" , duncan.sands@free.fr Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "LKML" , gregkh@suse.de, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Score: -1.8 X-Scan-Signature: e462de357cb394d64966911c06262bc8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1419 Lines: 45 Hello, On Thu, May 10, 2007 03:38, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > This was ACK'd by Greg, as you see in the sign-offs. See the commit > below for rationale. > > USB is now treated like other buses, for network drivers: > * USB network driver patches should go to me and netdev > * Just like in PCI or PCMCIA land, bus-specific code may > originate from the USB side of the house (Greg's tree). > > > > Please pull from 'usb-move' branch of > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git usb-move > > to receive the following update: > > > commit 5b2fc499917e5897a13add780e181b4cef197072 > Author: Jeff Garzik > Date: Wed May 9 21:31:55 2007 -0400 > > Move USB network drivers to drivers/net/usb. > > It is preferable to group drivers by usage (net, scsi, ATA, ...) than > by bus. When reviewing drivers, the [PCI|USB|PCMCIA|...] maintainer > is probably less qualified on networking issues than a networking > maintainer. Also, from a practical standpoint, chips often > appear on multiple buses, which is why we do not put drivers into > drivers/pci/net. What about drivers/usb/atm/? Greetings, Indan - 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/