[PATCH] Add uevent to bcma bus, to autoload drivers.

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 16:13:09 EDT 2011


W dniu 18 sierpnia 2011 09:51 użytkownik David Woodhouse
<dwmw2 at infradead.org> napisał:
> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 08:46 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> Tested on my BCM43224, thanks a lot! :)
>>
>> Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>>
>> You didn't send this directly to John, not sure if he will pick it up.
>>
>> Do you think this should go for 3.1? With this patch ppl will directly
>> see interface is present and will just use it or see error about
>> firmware in dmesg. Without the patch, person just have to know b43 is
>> supposed to support his card.
>
> Yes, it should go in for 3.1.
>
> I wasn't really expecting John to pick it up. You are the maintainer of
> drivers/bcma, so I'd expect to send it to *you*. Many maintainers would
> be unhappy at patches being sent upstream and bypassing them. Normally
> I'd expect you to pick up the patch and add it to your tree/queue with
> your own signed-off-by, and for it to go upstream that way.

I can accept sending patch directly to John, if I'm included in CC and
linux-wireless is included as well.

However, I can work the way you proposed as well :) Thanks for the
patch, just sent it to John.

-- 
Rafał



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