Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326Ab1CVXVY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:21:24 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38109 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932135Ab1CVXVV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:21:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:21:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: James Bottomley , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oakad@yahoo.com, Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39 Message-Id: <20110322162108.a4b70291.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1300621371.15768.11.camel@maxim-laptop> References: <1299212213-4255-1-git-send-email-maximlevitsky@gmail.com> <1299947013.17988.0.camel@maxim-laptop> <1300219210.13493.0.camel@MAIN> <20110315140402.334cc55c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1300590545.15453.3.camel@maxim-laptop> <20110319234701.0eab3744.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1300621371.15768.11.camel@maxim-laptop> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1321 Lines: 31 On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:42:51 +0200 Maxim Levitsky wrote: > On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 23:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:09:05 +0200 Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > > > ... > > Also, I don't have much time now to improve the ms_block driver till > this summer (studying). > The driver works. Yes it has a flaw in regard to scatterlist processing, > because I didn't find a better way to deal with this monster, but I will > fix that later. I am not the kind of guy that runs away after a merge. > It would be nice to just see my code in kernel, code I wrote more that a > year ago. > > This flaw is purely theoretical. Driver does work. Lots of code is "flawed but works". The place for such code is drivers/staging/ - it gets put in there so the code is available for those who need the driver and the code is later moved over into drivers/ once the flaws have been addressed. So a path forward here would be for us to put the driver and the sglist extensions into a directory under drivers/staging/. -- 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/