Re: Marvell D2Plug

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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     Do you have a pointer to where those drivers are at now?  Moving them
>     into staging, and then cleaning them up and merging them into the main
>     tree shouldn't be that hard of a task.
> 
> Is really necessary to go through staging tree? Wouldn't be easier that just
> people work on particular drivers and send them directly mainstream?

Yes, that would be great to do, but odds are, if the code is out of the
tree, then it needs a lot of work to get it merged properly.  And that
work is best done in the kernel tree to take advantage of api changes,
and the large kernel community.

hope this helps,

greg k-h
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