Re: drivers/net/usb/hso.c on sparc32

[Denis Joseph Barrow <D.Barow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,
Point your serious bugs at me I'll do my best to fix them
on the intel platform, we don't have sparcs here.

I don't think my turnaround time in keeping up with the latest kernels
is fast enough to be a really good maintainer I just about
manage to get a linux release candidate about every 10-12 days.
I want to be a primary contributor to hso.c but the internal version I maintain
is not whats in the official tree also as much as I love git I'm a bit of a clown with it, I
keep making mistakes with it, I've succeeding in corrupting clearcase 
repositorys in the past but clearcase is rubbish compared to git, I love git.

I don't think I'm tight enough at source control as a maintainer
needs to be, I've worked with good ones like Martin Schwidefsky
& they leave me completely for dead, however, if Filip Aben my
team lead wants me to take on maintaining I will, but it'll eat
up some of the time I spend fixing more serious hso.c bugs.

Also be genuinely sure that there is nobody better
at this than me. If I'd be honest I'd be average
at maintaining but not first rate.

I might be putting words in Filips mouth but
catching compiler warnings on sparc I think is not a no. 1
priority for us at option as long as it works without crashing
& performs well on sparc we are happy, I personally feel it's the sparc maintainers job
to clean up compile warnings on his platform because they sometimes show
up owing to incompatibilities with intel & have no problem
with him fixing genuine compile warnings in the hso driver as long as he breaks nothing.
in short point sparc warnings at the sparc maintainer if this
gets cleaned up under my nose I have no problem with it.



Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:43:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Is this a netdev-list thing or a usb-list thing?  I never know, and
>> this code doesn't have a ./MAINTAINERS entry, afaict (hint).
>>
>>
>> drivers/net/usb/hso.c: In function 'hso_serial_set_termios':
>> drivers/net/usb/hso.c:1186: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'tcflag_t'
>> drivers/net/usb/hso.c:1186: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'tcflag_t'
> 
> It's been a usb thing, so linux-usb is good.
> 
> As for maintainer, Denis, want to take this on?  If not, let me know and
> I'll see what I can do, but it would be nice if someone who actually had
> the device would maintain the code :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


-- 
best regards,
D.J. Barrow
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