Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:45045 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755057Ab1HSUNK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:13:10 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so5373575pzk.1 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:13:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1313653897.13224.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <4E3420E9.6080603@lwfinger.net> <1313617419.3990.134.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <1313653897.13224.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110819_221314_554353_A2FB1D37) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add uevent to bcma bus, to autoload drivers. From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: David Woodhouse Cc: wireless , b43-dev , Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: W dniu 18 sierpnia 2011 09:51 użytkownik David Woodhouse napisał: > On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 08:46 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> >> Tested on my BCM43224, thanks a lot! :) >> >> Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki >> >> You didn't send this directly to John, not sure if he will pick it up. >> >> Do you think this should go for 3.1? With this patch ppl will directly >> see interface is present and will just use it or see error about >> firmware in dmesg. Without the patch, person just have to know b43 is >> supposed to support his card. > > Yes, it should go in for 3.1. > > I wasn't really expecting John to pick it up. You are the maintainer of > drivers/bcma, so I'd expect to send it to *you*. Many maintainers would > be unhappy at patches being sent upstream and bypassing them. Normally > I'd expect you to pick up the patch and add it to your tree/queue with > your own signed-off-by, and for it to go upstream that way. I can accept sending patch directly to John, if I'm included in CC and linux-wireless is included as well. However, I can work the way you proposed as well :) Thanks for the patch, just sent it to John. -- Rafał