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

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 07:21:17PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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

Argh, that stuff, yeah, that's in a different review queue, and is going
to take "real work" on my side to get through, which is why it hasn't
happened yet, sorry...

it's not lost.

greg k-h