Hello Vitaliy, At first glance, your backport looks clean. I have one comment however, about the author and version. Since it's a backport from an existing driver and not one you wrote yourself (eventhough you did the backporting work), the MODULE_AUTHOR should not be changed (but I think you can add yourself to it after a comma). The version should reflect the version you derived it from, at least for bug tracking purposes. Also, while I understand you would be very glad to get your work merge...

But something's strange. If people were using 2.4, this hardware has never worked for them, right ? Why suddenly would they decide that they have to switch OS or hardware ? Or maybe this hardware replaces That's what I've seen. I can propose you something (unless someone else raises his hand saying "no") : you update your patch with a short description of what the hardware module is supposed to be used for, and you accept to step up as the maintainer for this backport, which will imply that you...