On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 05:52:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I'm not saying that the in-kernel driver is perfect at all, and it's > author is getting annoying by refusing to answer my emails, but still, > please work with him to get the in-kernel driver to work up to your > needs. > > If you have problems with the maintainer, please let me know and I'll > see what I can do. > > But again, this driver is not acceptable as-is, sorry. Greg, I completely appreciate your position on this. I would just like to add one thought for your consideration: If, in fact, Luben's driver is somehow "better", it would be a shame to penalize users with a lower-quality driver because they got to the submission first. Now, for that to apply, several things would have to be true. I do not know if they are true here, and I leave it to your discression to determine. But, your stated problems getting hold of the maintainer make me wonder.... That said, unless the current driver is really bad, and Luben's is tremendously better, it seems to make more sense for everyone to focus on improving the in-kernel driver, even if that means slowly re-writing it over time. Lord knows that is basically what I did with the usb-storage driver... Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I want my GPFs!!! -- Stef User Friendly, 11/9/1998
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