On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> When the 'mbm' driver is accepted upstream, the option.c patch is no > >> longer required, and the VID/PID can be dropped from option.c. > > > > As that seems to not being anywhere close to happening yet, we'll just > > leave this as-is for now :( > > Are there any other issues preventing this than > 1) the naming scheme discussion > 2) proper patch mail submission > ? Both of those remain to be done. Others might turn up as part of both of them. > If the naming really is confusing to end users, then I guess the major > distributions will install udev rules to care of that. Such rules could > also be bundled with the userspace tools, I guess. naming needs to be agreed apon in a LSB-compliant manner, it's not a trivial thing to paper over. > The important issue now, IMHO, is getting the driver out and tested. That too would be nice. The drivers/staging/ tree can accomplish this if people want to submit it for inclusion there. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
