From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 16:28:39 +0000 Subject: Re: doubt about sm7xxfb (was: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] staging: fsl-mc: New functionality to the MC bus dr Message-Id: <20150613162839.GA14842@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <1433887148-2310-1-git-send-email-German.Rivera@freescale.com> <20150613001849.GB5234@kroah.com> <20150613084618.GA6492@sudip-PC> In-Reply-To: <20150613084618.GA6492@sudip-PC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Sudip Mukherjee Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, tomi.valkeinen@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 02:16:18PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:18:49PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 04:59:01PM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote: > > > This patch series includes new functionality for the Freescale fsl-mc > > > bus driver. > > > > Why are people working on "new functionality" instead of working on > > getting this out of the staging tree? I really hate adding new > > functions to staging drivers, as this is not the correct place for > > drivers to be in the tree. People should be working to get them out of > > this location, and then you can add new functions to them. > Hi Greg, > Your reply above was for a different thread but my doubt started from > this. I was working on adding the Dual-Head support to sm7xxfb. So that > is also a new functionality which is not in the current driver as of now. > Then should i instead concentrate on getting that out of staging? If yes, > can you please have a look (when you are free) at it to see if anything > else needs to be done. Yes, please work on getting it out of staging. If you think it's ready, then submit a patch that moves it, copying the proper maintainers, and I'll be glad to review it. thanks, greg k-h