status of sbe-2t3e3 staging driver?

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:05:29PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> 
> > It's been pointed out to me that there hasn't been any forward
> > development on the sbe-2t3e3 in almost a year now.  Is development dead,
> > and I should delete it, or are you planning on doing more work on it
> > soon so that it can be merged out of the staging tree?
> 
> To be honest, I'm not sure how to solve this. The reason I wanted the
> 2T3E3 driver in the "staging" was I also wanted to write a new hdlc/sync
> serial/etc. management layer, dealing in a uniform way with all those
> physical line, L2 protocol, timings and what-not settings.
> But the sync serial interfaces are more and more obsolete, and there are
> much more interesting things to write, so the new management layer never
> happened.
> 
> Last time I checked, the driver was functional and the code was
> reasonable, so perhaps the best course of action would be to move it out
> to the regular network WAN drivers directory.
> 
> I need to get it through netdev@ I guess.

Great, please work on doing that soon.  As there has not been any
forward progress on the staging driver, I'm going to have to remove it
from the tree for the next release.

thanks,

greg k-h