[PATCH 0/5] Radio device framework

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 4 16:10:00 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 03:47:48PM +0000, Goyal Akhil-B35197 wrote:

Please fix your email client to properly quote things.

> > This framework will be re-sent for drivers/ folder after it gets 
> > approval for staging.
> 
> What does this sentance mean?
> 
> Why are you submitting this for drivers/staging/?  I do not see a TODO file that lists what needs to be done to this code to get it out of the staging tree, that is required.
> [Akhil] yes this driver do not have any TODO file but as per my
> understanding, any new driver shall be first sent to staging folder

Where is that documented?  Who told you that?  That is _not_ what the
drivers/staging/ tree is for at all.

> but if it is ok to send the patches directly to drivers/ folder then I
> will resend this patch set by rebasing it to drivers/ folder.

Does this really deserve its own subdirectory in drivers/ ?

Why not use the newly introduced phy layer instead?

> [Akhil] I will resend the patches after rebasing it to drivers/ folder
> if it is ok?

Please work with other kernel developers within Freescale as to how the
proper way to submit code to the kernel is done.

thanks,

greg k-h



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