From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B51F12E52 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 10:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ideasonboard.com header.i=@ideasonboard.com header.b="iRnYmivb" Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc2:55:216:3eff:fef7:d647]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 176D5BD; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 02:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (213-243-189-158.bb.dnainternet.fi [213.243.189.158]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5DF7C468; Tue, 7 Nov 2023 11:08:36 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1699351716; bh=mI+C9BE7qHDgUYbgoCaEsi8LmHTuqyG8+n8yBehjAyg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=iRnYmivbqQSMQ0lFul0jCE5kcvHGedMK15bZUtIJdb4uAJOiHTEue6ck1FLRQHHtv 5X/vEVVWgPHkqKir3Pjh+um3SZe/jpZ/hzvSOj/3WhpFfH9UNkJW8mKlVlKSAmswx4 vWMWR7t07TlcL2YnK/776DBW9uAXDk9oDeaV5Mv4= Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 12:09:05 +0200 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jack Zhu , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Robert Foss , Todor Tomov , bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org, Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Philipp Zabel , Hans Verkuil , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, changhuang.liang@starfivetech.com, Kieran Bingham Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver Message-ID: <20231107100905.GA27932@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> 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> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2023110756-alto-stream-eb92@gregkh> 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