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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 09:27:34 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jack Zhu <jack.zhu@starfivetech.com>
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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?

confused,

greg k-h