[PATCH] libertas: if_spi: call board specific teardown method if probe fails

[Uli Luckas]

On Friday, 17. April 2009, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:33 +0100, Uli Luckas wrote:
> > if_spi: call board specific teardown method if probe fails
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uli Luckas <u.luckas at road.de>
>
> Hmm; I see now you only sent to libertas-dev...
>
> (not that this is specified anywhere, but it's supposed to be general
> Linux wireless development knowledge so I guess here it is)
>
> Patches for the actual Linux kernel for any wireless driver should be
> sent to linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org, which is where the Linux
> wireless subsystem maintainer (John Linville) takes submissions from.
> libertas-dev is more about specific problems with the Marvel fullmac
> libertas devices, so that we aren't drowned out in the large traffic on
> linux-wireless.  We used to maintain our own git tree until the libertas
> driver was fully merged into the kernel.
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Documentation
>
> So you'll want to CC your patch to linux-wireless, where it will get
> reviewed and if no issues are found (I looked at it when you sent it,
> and it looks fine, but I had assumed wrongly that it was also sent to
> linux-wireless) I'll ack it and John will pick it up for inclusion in
> the kernel.
>
> Dan
>
Thanks for explaining.

Uli

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