Re: [External] Re: staging: Add MA USB Host driver

From: Vladimir Stankovic
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 04:07:56 EST


On 22.1.20. 09:49, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post>
> Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting?
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>
> A: No.
> Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
>
> http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top
> <http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 08:16:09AM +0000, Vladimir Stankovic wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > It was section 2.5 of the kernel development process, "staging trees".
> > In particular, statement "where many sub-directories for drivers or
> > filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree
> > live" caught our attention.
> >
> > Now, by reading it once again, I see that the rest of the section is in
> > line with your comment.
> >
> > We'll address all comments received so far, and resubmit patch onto
> > appropriate repository. With that being said, is USB subsystem tree
> > (drivers/usb within usb.git repo) correct one? Please, advise.
>
> If this is a USB host driver, then yes, drivers/usb/host/ would be the
> correct location for this.
>
> Note, at first glance, there is a bunch of work to do on this to get it
> into "real" mergable shape. Be sure to at the very least get it
> 'checkpatch.pl clean' before submitting it, that will help out a lot, if
> it is not already done.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Failed to set my Thunderbird properly, sorry.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll proceed as advised.

Regards,
Vladimir.