Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:06 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [patch net-next]alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Ren, Cloud" <cjren@qca.qualcomm.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:23:07 +0000
> As you saw, should I do the two following steps? > 1. I firstly try to submit code to linux-staging.git. > 2. After the driver have been accepted by linux-staging.git, I submit to net-next.git again.
You submit and get it into staging so that it can sit there for some time and get reviewed and improved by others.
One doesn't submit directly to net-next right after it gets into staging, staging is a place where your driver lives while it still smelly funky and needs more work.
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