Is it time to move drivers/staging/netlogic/ out of staging?

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Mon Feb 6 03:21:17 UTC 2017


Le 02/04/17 à 00:08, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 06:37:02PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/03/2017 12:44 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 12:38:45PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>> On 02/03/2017 12:36 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:57:16AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 10:50 -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>>>>> (with JC's other email)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And now with Greg's proper email too
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 02/03/2017 10:47 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>>>>>> 64 bit stats isn't implemented, but is that really necessary?
>>>>>>>> Anything else?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Joe, do you have such hardware that you are interested in getting
>>>>>>> supported, or was that just to reduce the amount of drivers in staging?
>>>>>>> I am really not clear about what happened to that entire product line,
>>>>>>> and whether there is any interest in having anything supported these days...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No hardware.  Just to reduce staging driver count.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without hardware or a "real" maintainer, it shouldn't be moved.
>>>>>
>>>>> Heck, if no one has the hardware, let's just delete the thing.
>>>>
>>>> I do have one, and other colleagues have some too, but I am not heavily
>>>> using it, nor do I have many cycles to spend on that... sounds like we
>>>> could keep it in staging for another 6 months and see what happens then?
>>>
>>> Well, if it works for you, want to maintain it?  :)
>>
>> I'd have to locate the documentation first, and you would have to reply
>> to my patch series about DSA ;)
> 
> I don't have any patch series in my queue, sorry, so I have no idea what
> you are talking about...

You don't really? How about this patch series:

https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg147917.html

and me asking you another time to provide feedback:

https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg150885.html
-- 
Florian


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