Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:29:42 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Add modules to support realtek PCIE card reader |
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > So, I think that this driver has seen a bunch of testing and reviewing > > and we might start considering upstreaming it. There are a bunch of > > laptops integrating those readers and maybe a single three-month-ish -rc > > period of testing wouldn't hurt before it appears upstream. > > > > Now, AFAICT, there is another driver in staging which supports the same > > or a subset of the cardreaders this driver does so I don't know what > > Realsil want to do with that. Wei? > > > > And since this driver touches multiple drivers/{mfd,mmc,memstick} > > subdirs, maybe akpm would like to merge it? At least I haven't seen any > > other maintainers complaining about its design or wanting to take it so > > I think you've missed the mails -- Alex Dubov has acked the memstick > portion, Samuel Ortiz has said he'll push the MFD driver for 3.7, > and I've pushed the MMC driver into mmc-next for 3.7. So, I think > we should merge it. I don't think we need akpm, since there are no > build-time dependencies involved.
Great, all is taken care of then.
Only the staging driver remains, I believe the CONFIG_RTS_PSTOR one. Wei?
Thanks.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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