On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:35:35AM +0900, Akira Hayakawa wrote: > Hi, > > I am happy to see that dm-lc is picked up by LWN. > http://lwn.net/Articles/562938/ > > Now I think I should consider the next step forward. > > > As Joe Thornber said before, what I have to do next are > 1. Get some feedback from 3rd party users. > 2. Reviewed by Mike Snitzer. > As in > http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2013-July/msg00137.html > > To achieve the first goal, > I am thinking of going to staging tree > for dm-lc to be widely available to people in community. > > dm-lc is now managed in Github repo as a kernel module > however, getting available in the tree means a lot > to get 3rd party users. > > Does this plan sound nice? > > If so, what is the next step to go to staging? > I have a patch against 3.11-rc7 in linux-next locally. > Sending the patch to Greg is the next step? > And who and what should be included in CC? That's fine with me. For staging drivers, I need a TODO file that lists what needs to be done to the code to get it into a mergable state for the "real" part of the kernel, and an email address to cc: patches on. Also, a MAINTAINERS entry is good as that way the scripts/get_maintainer.pl tool will properly pick up your email address. You should generate the patch against the linux-next tree, as I have lots of new staging drivers in there, ready for 3.12, and if you make a patch against 3.11-rc7, odds are it will not apply properly. If you have any other questions, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
