From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756221Ab1JTJZK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:10 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:56066 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755422Ab1JTJZI (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20111020.052506.373437241768777548.davem@davemloft.net> To: cjren@qca.qualcomm.com Cc: rodrigue@qca.qualcomm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch net-next]alx: Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <6349D7A510622448B1BA0967850A8438011CC21D@nasanexd02d.na.qualcomm.com> References: <1319093184-19696-1-git-send-email-cloud.ren@Atheros.com> <20111020.044541.970282389722164761.davem@davemloft.net> <6349D7A510622448B1BA0967850A8438011CC21D@nasanexd02d.na.qualcomm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Ren, Cloud" Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:23:07 +0000 > As you saw, should I do the two following steps? > 1. I firstly try to submit code to linux-staging.git. > 2. After the driver have been accepted by linux-staging.git, I submit to net-next.git again. You submit and get it into staging so that it can sit there for some time and get reviewed and improved by others. One doesn't submit directly to net-next right after it gets into staging, staging is a place where your driver lives while it still smelly funky and needs more work.