Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752511AbZA2Eof (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752028AbZA2EoB (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:01 -0500 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:52731 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751637AbZA2EoA (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:00 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Greg KH Subject: Re: lowmemory android driver not needed? Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Arve =?SHIFT_JIS?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , Brian Swetland , arve@google.com, San Mehat , Robert Love , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Tony Lindgren , ext Juha =?SHIFT_JIS?B?WXJq9myBRQ==?= , viktor.rosendahl@nokia.com, Trilok Soni In-Reply-To: <20090129042748.GA24108@kroah.com> References: <20090129124555.b83ea0ae.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090129042748.GA24108@kroah.com> Message-Id: <20090129134233.A95C.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:43:51 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 22 > > > I never expected it to be merged. I wrote it to allow us to ship a product. > > > > > Then, please write "DON'T MERGE ME" on the top of patch description. > > we can adjust our viewpoints. > > The code will live in the drivers/staging/ directory for now and not get > merged into the "main" portion of the kernel tree until everyone can > agree on it. > > But for now, it is useful and seems to work for a few million devices > out there, so we can't just ignore it :) No. if author don't hope review and merge, we don't have any reason to reviewing. -- 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/