Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 09:27:34AM +0100, 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?

"Taking some time" doesn't necessarily mean "abandoned". I agree that
more often that not we've seen code dumped in staging and left there
unmaintained. Once bitten, twice shy (or as we say in French, a scalded
cat fears cold water), but let's not necessarily assume the worst
possible outcome :-)

Of course, if StarFive wants to speed up development of the ISP support,
both on the kernel side and libcamera side, I'm sure Kieran and I can
help (possibly not very fast if it is only done in our spare time
though, but that's a separate discussion).

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart