From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fd01.gateway.ufhost.com (fd01.gateway.ufhost.com [61.152.239.71]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB36C12E40 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 09:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=starfivetech.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=starfivetech.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=none Received: from EXMBX166.cuchost.com (unknown [175.102.18.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "EXMBX166", Issuer "EXMBX166" (not verified)) by fd01.gateway.ufhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61BA80D3; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:29:08 +0800 (CST) Received: from EXMBX073.cuchost.com (172.16.6.83) by EXMBX166.cuchost.com (172.16.6.76) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1497.42; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:29:08 +0800 Received: from [192.168.1.218] (180.164.60.184) by EXMBX073.cuchost.com (172.16.6.83) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1497.42; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:29:08 +0800 Message-ID: <48b93e44-6cd3-03a5-0eb2-4123b3790877@starfivetech.com> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:29:08 +0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver Content-Language: en-US To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Robert Foss , Todor Tomov , , Rob Herring , "Krzysztof Kozlowski" , Conor Dooley , Philipp Zabel , "Laurent Pinchart" , Hans Verkuil , , , , , References: <20231025031422.3695-1-jack.zhu@starfivetech.com> <15ef0a70-734e-280a-f014-41914a55d8cf@starfivetech.com> <2023110745-tableful-trapezoid-4206@gregkh> <2023110730-thousand-skyrocket-d6ba@gregkh> <2023110756-alto-stream-eb92@gregkh> From: Jack Zhu In-Reply-To: <2023110756-alto-stream-eb92@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [180.164.60.184] X-ClientProxiedBy: EXCAS062.cuchost.com (172.16.6.22) To EXMBX073.cuchost.com (172.16.6.83) X-YovoleRuleAgent: yovoleflag On 2023/11/7 16:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 04:05:11PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote: >> > Also, while you wait, why not just finish off the last 3 items on the >> > TODO list which would make your code not be required to go into the >> > staging portion of the tree at all? You've had a few weeks now, what is >> > preventing that from happening, and when will that work actually be >> > done? >> > >> >> One of my colleagues is doing related development, but he also has other >> projects at the same time, so he cannot devote all his efforts to this >> development. And we expect to use libcamera, which may take some time. > > So that means there is no real plan at all to get this out of the > staging directory? If so, why should we take it at all as obviously > this means that the code is now abandoned? > Hi Greg, It's not like that, we won't give up on this code. We just want to make development easier using incremental development. Our developers are already working on development, but I can't give you an accurate time. There should be a preliminary version in about 3 months. -- Regards, Jack Zhu