On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:51:59AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Blah. OK then, just send it to Thomas. > > Initially this code was written and committed by RMK which is why I > suggested you send him the fix.
It _should_, because the author of the file presumably knows how the driver is supposed to work much better than the maintainer of the subsystem. So driver authors _should_ always be involved in the handling of the patch. Unfortunately, that rarely happens, and I've given up any hope of the old kernel process(es) remaining where authors were responsible for the code they wrote. Somehow, kernel maintanence has been perversed so that subsystem maintainers get to decide whether patches to drivers that they don't have hardware for are to be applied irrespective of whether the driver author has any input to it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/