[PATCH] wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jul 2 07:30:03 UTC 2020


On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 07:24:34AM +0000, Ajay.Kathat at microchip.com wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/07/20 12:45 pm, Greg KH wrote:
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> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:00:40AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> >> <Ajay.Kathat at microchip.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> From: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat at microchip.com>
> >>>
> >>> WILC1000 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT link controller module. The
> >>> WILC1000 connects to Microchip AVR/SMART MCUs, SMART MPUs, and other
> >>> processors with minimal resource requirements with a simple
> >>> SPI/SDIO-to-Wi-Fi interface.
> >>>
> >>> WILC1000 driver has been part of staging for few years. With
> >>> contributions from the community, it has improved significantly. Full
> >>> driver review has helped in achieving the current state.
> >>> The details for those reviews are captured in 1 & 2.
> >>>
> >>> [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1537957525-11467-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/
> >>> [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1562896697-8002-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat at microchip.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> As suggested, keeping all the changes in single commit with file rename
> >>> so it's easy to move out of staging [3].
> >>>
> >>> Please choose whichever option you prefer between the git mv or patch series
> >>> sent last Tuesday. The resulting driver is the same as no patch has been
> >>> queued in between.
> >>>
> >>> [3]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20200623110000.31559-1-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/
> >>
> >> As discussed with Greg I created an immutable branch for this and merged
> >> the branch to wireless-drivers-next:
> >>
> >> 5625f965d764 wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging
> >>
> >> Greg, here's the location of the immutable branch:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next.git wilc1000-move-out-of-staging
> > 
> > Looks good, I've pulled it into my staging tree as well, but there's
> > still a TODO file left in drivers/staging/wilc1000, right?
> > 
> > I'll just add a patch to my tree to remove that last file.
> > 
> 
> Yes, TODO file needs to be removed after the driver movement.

Now gone from my tree.

> Thanks Greg for all your support to move driver out of staging.

Glad to see it move out, thanks to you all for all of your work!

greg k-h


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