Anybody working on ced1401?

[Luca Ellero]

On 13/07/2014 18:46, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 05:11:45PM +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 27/06/2014 16:55, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:04:43PM +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
>>>> Il 26/06/2014 21:23, Greg KH ha scritto:
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:36:17AM +0200, Alois Schloegl wrote:
>>>>>> On 2014-06-18 13:33, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Alois,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that
>>>>>>> nobody seems to have worked towards moving ced1401 out of staging in
>>>>>>> over a year. Are there any plans to clean it up and move it out soon?
>>>>>>> Because otherwise we're going to have to delete the driver, as we don't
>>>>>>> want staging to become a permanent place for unfinished code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Kristina
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Kristina,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks for the notice. Please, give me some time for checking here how
>>>>>> we want to go forward with this.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you mean by this?  You all have had a lot of time, with no real
>>>>> progress at all?  How about we delete the driver and if you decide to
>>>>> continue to work on it, we can revert that deletion and go from there?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> greg k-h
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have a hundred patches for this driver ready to send.
>>>
>>> Why have you not sent them previously?  What is preventing you to send
>>> them?
>>
>> Because it's only for a few weeks that I've been working on them.
>>
>>>> They basically convert all "camelCase" and "Hungarian notation" names to
>>>> Linux convention and fix some checkpatch errors (no logic is modified).
>>>
>>> Do you have this hardware to test the code with?  Do you want to work on
>>> getting this driver merged out of the staging tree?
>>
>> I used to have one CED1401, but unfortunately I don't have it any more.
>> Anyway if Alois (or someone else) can test the patches it would be
>> great. I can do a bit more work to get this driver out of staging.
>
> As you don't have the hardware anymore, does it make much sense to keep
> working on the driver?  I'd recommend just deleting it, if someone shows
> up with the hardware later, we can always revert it.

Hi Greg,
I agree. Without hardware, it's very hard to go ahead.
I sent the patches in the hope that someone can test them.
But if no one is interested, I have no objection in removing the driver.
regards
Luca