Anybody working on panel?

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:39:26PM +0300, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
> On 20/06/14 19:52, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Hi Kristina,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 06:35:03PM +0300, Kristina Mart?enko wrote:
> >> Hi Willy,
> >>
> >> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that
> >> nobody seems to have worked towards moving panel 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.
> > 
> > In fact I think we're facing the edge of the staging driver model : it
> > works fine for everyone and people are used to use it from there. I'm
> > absolutely convinced that this is the worst thing to do, but we're in
> > the situation where doing nothing ensures it continues to work. It was
> > submitted a long time ago by a user. I was not very happy by this since
> > I knew I wouldn't be the person doing the clean up, but I understand
> > that it allows users to have it ready.
> 
> Yes, I know what you mean. On the other hand, if we keep it around, we
> have to keep every other staging driver around for the same reason -
> that it works, and somebody might want to use it. The end result is that
> there's an ever increasing amount of code in the kernel that's low
> quality, and will probably always be so.
> 
> > Since then, there have been
> > multiple cleanup passes, I'm not even sure if it still makes sense that
> > it remains in staging now.
> 
> That's good, though if you don't know, then I think probably no one
> does. Someone should probably review it.
> 
> > If some help is needed from my side to move
> > it to drivers/misc, I'll participate, of course, but I clearly won't
> > spend a whole week rewriting it differently for example.
> 
> Do you want to review it? The TODO file says the userspace API and
> major/minor usages need checking.
> 
> If not, then Greg, what do you think would be the best thing to do with
> this driver?

Let me put it on my list of things to review, and I will look at it in a
few weeks when I get back from my next round of trips.

thanks,

greg k-h