From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Drivers in staging folder
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 08:03:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160106160322.GA13289@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160106110747.GA5926@thinkpad.gaudi.net>
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:07:47AM +0000, James Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've had a look at the TODO files but I'm having some difficulty with
> finding out which devices each of the drivers support. My plan was to
> find a driver in staging, get a device off ebay which uses the driver
> and then start working on the TODO.
>
> Is this the right approach and is the actual device (for testing)
> needed in order to do cleanups in TODO files?
It's a great start, but watch out for the wireless drivers in staging,
most of them will be impossible to clean up "properly" and are only
there to give people a working Linux machine until someone writes a new
driver "from scratch" as cleaning up the staging driver is an almost
impossible task (it's only ever been done once.)
good luck!
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-06 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-06 11:07 Drivers in staging folder James Miller
2016-01-06 11:16 ` Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar
2016-01-06 16:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
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