Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] Introduce External Connector Class (extcon)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:24:07PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:39:08PM +0900, MyungJoo Ham wrote:
> > > Dear Arnd,
> > > 
> > > Could you please consider the EXTCON patchset for the current merge window?
> > 
> > Wait, no, the current merge window for new stuff closed a week or so
> > before 3.3 came out.  This needs to be in linux-next before the merge
> > window opens to ensure that things work properly there before it can be
> > accepted into the mainline tree.
> > 
> > So this could go into 3.5 at the earliest.
> 
> Right. I'm also not convinced that arm-soc is the right place for this to
> go, and I had not planned to add the patches there. Unfortunately I also
> haven't followed the last few versions and will have to do at least one
> more review round and Ack/Nak the interfaces. I should probably do that
> once -rc1 is out, so please send me a reminder if you don't hear back from
> me in time.
> 
> Any opinions on which tree this should go through? I could take it into
> arm-soc, but it's not really ARM-only. Maybe having it go through the
> staging tree would be better, leaving MyungJoo in charge afterwards.
> I guess we should also add a MAINTAINERS entry for the new subsystem.

If acks come through, and I'll be glad to review it after -rc1 as well,
I can take it through one of my trees to get merged to Linus for 3.5.

thanks,

greg k-h
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