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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: doubt about sm7xxfb
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:36:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211043636.GA27598@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150210140747.GA15593@sudip-PC>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 07:37:47PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> we have this sm7xxfb in drivers/staging now which is supporting SM710,
> SM712, SM721 and SM722. I am also working on another new hardware
> SM750, which will be ready for staging in next 1 -2 weeks.
> this SM750 is entirely different hardware and these two drivers will
> have nothing in common.

Then make a new driver!

But why would a new driver go into staging?  Anything new you create
should just go into the "correct" part of the kernel.  Don't waste your
time on staging.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-11  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-10 14:07 doubt about sm7xxfb Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-11  4:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-02-11  6:28   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-11  6:33     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-02-25 12:30       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-25 15:34         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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