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From: Sidong Yang <realwakka@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: A question about staging driver like pi433
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:43:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210812074358.GA37154@realwakka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YRIY3q39j/b5O3Ir@kroah.com>

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 08:12:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 11:27:13PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:20:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> > > > and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> > > > staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> > > > about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> > > > buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> > > > 
> > > > In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
> > > 
> > > Why would it be removed if people still use it?
> > 
> > Yeah, I thought there is no user using this device. I realized that it
> > was bad idea. 
> 
> Is there no one using this?  That's kind of hard to determine, and is
> a problem we have at times :(

I contacted the hardware developer in personal. And He replied positive.
I would get the pi433 device soon. It would be nice that It can be
tested in practice.

Thanks,
Sidong

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-09 16:13 A question about staging driver like pi433 Sidong Yang
2021-08-09 18:20 ` Greg KH
2021-08-09 23:27   ` Sidong Yang
2021-08-10  6:12     ` Greg KH
2021-08-12  7:43       ` Sidong Yang [this message]

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