From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761616AbYBFADQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:03:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757300AbYBFADA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:03:00 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:50547 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756585AbYBFADA (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:03:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Marcel Holtmann cc: Jiri Kosina , David Sterba , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Martel , stephen@symmetric.co.nz Subject: Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card In-Reply-To: <1202255212.15090.180.camel@violet> Message-ID: References: <20080201153707.GA24859@ds.suse.cz> <1202255212.15090.180.camel@violet> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > I had some minor additional questions, but in general, I second that > this driver should be merged for 2.6.25. > > The question of the PCMCIA maintainership came up on a different mailing > list. Well, in the case of this particular driver, I think it's not so much a PCMCIA thing as a "network driver" thing. It's not like the driver actually needs any extra PCMCIA support or anything like that, and as such I think in this case it's really more of a regular network driver than anything else. And especially with wireless, I think the impact for any future changes are about the wireless infrastructure, not PCMCIA. There's little reason to believe that we'll ever make any big PCMCIA overhauls exctly because PCMCIA is so dead. So I'd happily merge it, but I would be even happier if I got ack's from the wireless people or if it was simply merged that way too. Linus