Anybody working on bcm?

[Kevin McKinney]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:40:40PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:02:11PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:46:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 02:07:32PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >     On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:49:33 +0300
> > > >     Kristina Martšenko <kristina.martsenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >     > Hi Stephen,
> > > >     >
> > > >     > I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that
> > > >     > nobody seems to have worked towards moving bcm 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,
> > > > I will continue working on this driver. Please leave this driver in staging if
> > > > possible.
> > > 
> > > Do you have the hardware for this to test with?
> > 
> > I currently do not have the hardware, but I will be moving to an area
> > with WiMax Coverage soon.
> 
> Even in those areas, do they still use this specific type of hardware?
> I thought it was long obsolete.

Sprint will offer WiMax coverage through 2015.  In addition, there are other ISP's that offer this particulare hardware.
Either way, we have until the end of 2015 to get this driver out of staging :). 

> > I will then fix a nasty 64 bit bug that I have been working on for a
> > while now.  I understand you need delete this unfinished driver;
> > however if you could leave it in staging that would be great.
> 
> If you want to maintain and work to clean it up and out of staging,
> that's great, care to send a patch adding your name to the TODO file?

Sure, I will submit a patch adding my name to the TODO file.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h