From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging/vboxvideo: Add TODO Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:18:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20190204103114.30772-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20190204103114.30772-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> <20190204185416.GC2834@ravnborg.org> <20190206155856.GK3271@phenom.ffwll.local> <20190213184605.GA11537@ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190213184605.GA11537@ravnborg.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: DRI Development , LKML , Nicholas Mc Guire , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Daniel Vetter , Fabio Rafael da Rosa List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Hi, On 13-02-19 19:46, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi Hans >>> >>>> Which bring me back to a question asked a week ago or so. >>>> What is missing before we can move vboxvideo out of staging/ >>> >>> I think it boils down to someone needs to submit it and we'll take a look. >> >> Right, I have this on my TODO, but I did not manage to find time for this >> the past few weeks. I expect to have time for this in a couple of weeks >> from now, which means the move will miss the 5.1 merge window. >> >> Note you (Sam) are certainly welcome to submit a patch doing the move >> yourself, I can certainly use some help with maintaining vboxvideo. > > I have not tried to submit patches to move vboxvideo out of staging. > Partially due to lack of time, mostly lack of competence to > follow-up on the review comments I hope we will see. > I am perfectly happy to do trivial stuff, but when someone ask > to replace the use of ttm with shmem+gem (example - I do not > know if this is a relevant comment), then it is above > me for the moment. > And on top of this then I lack a good testing environment. > > I could do it but then anything difficult would just be added > to a TODO file, and then I dunno how useful it is. > Something to consider when we are past the merge window anyway. Ok, I will try to submit a patch doing the move myself soon. Regards, Hans