Re: [patch 3/2] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - add writew_be for data push
- To: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Cc: "Frank P. Szymanski" <frank_peter.szymanski@freenet.de>, Debian GNU/Linux m68k <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>, smarenka@debian.org, Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>
- Subject: Re: [patch 3/2] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - add writew_be for data push
- From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:28:22 +0100 (CET)
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > > Looking at the SCSI driver in 2.6.26, it's no surprise - the error handling
> > > > update that I did for 2.6.18 is not included in Geert's current 2.6 patch
> > > > series. Looks like I botched the patch submission way back when.
> > >
> > > It's a pity. You put so much work in it but none of your patches
> > > (EtherNEC, EtherNAT or SCSI) got it into a current kernel.
> > >
> > > Is there a reason why?
> >
> > When Michael thinks they're ready, he can submit them to netdev or linux-scsi
> > ;-)
>
> I'm happy for them to live in linux-m68k :-)
>
> EtherNEC and EtherNAT are 'ready' in the sense they are working reliably. They
> are by no means 'ready in the sense that mainline kernel maintainers would be
> happy to take my patches.
Or should we get them into linux-staging?
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Introducing_the_Linux_Staging_Tree
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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-- Linus Torvalds
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