On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 08:23:58AM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote: > Hello Greg. > > on 01/24/2012 08:39 PM Greg KH said the following: > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:18:28PM +0100, Michael Hunold wrote: > > >> this driver is Toshiba-specific and support for the Toshiba TMPA9xx > >> ARM architecture is not yet in mainline either, so it does not make > >> sense to submit any of the specific drivers, I guess. > > > As long as the build doesn't fail, I see no reason to wait to add a > > driver like this, it would make your life easier, right? > > It will only be possible to compile-test the driver, nothing more. For > real testing, other steps would have to be taken before. (see below) Compile-test is fine. > >> Submitting the whole architecture is of course desirable, but will > >> likely not happen. There is not enough interest and/or support for > >> doing this. > > > Why not? What is keeping it from being included? Who doesn't want > > to submit it? > > It's not the case that somebody is not wanting to submit it, but rather > somebody is just missing to do the job. > > There are multiple reasons, more or less technical. > > This is an older ARM926-based platform. > > The hardware has some architectural quirks that require patches to other > drivers first, like the pl190 VIC driver, the amba-clcd driver, the > generic USB OHCI driver etc. > > The current kernel is based on stable 2.6.39.4 kernel, but following the > mainline development more closely is necessary. > > Russell King and all the others are doing a great job to consolidate the > whole ARM architecture, but that means following a lot of changes in all > places at a quick pace. > > I know that it's possible to get the job done if somebody really wanted. Ok, well, if you want to submit it, realize that you can. best of luck, 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
