Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Add modules to support realtek PCIE card reader

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Sep 29 2012 - 11:29:38 EST


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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