From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfram Sang Subject: Re: legacy drivers in staging? Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:26:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20090301192615.GB24892@pengutronix.de> References: <20090301101306.GB23093@pengutronix.de> <20090301113641.33a462d2@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090301113641.33a462d2-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jean Delvare Cc: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jean, > I am not sure myself. I agree we don't want to delay the removal of the > legacy binding just because of these drivers. But OTOH I see little > point in having a staging directory [1] if drivers being placed there > break as soon as there is a core kernel change. I guess we are supposed > to update these drivers as we do for all other drivers. My view is a bit like the comment found in staging/rt28[67]0/TODO: =3D=3D=3D Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg Kroah-Hartman and don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it. =3D=3D=3D > That being said I think that there is much more work needed on these > drivers, on the V4L side. As some of these drivers are not just ugly but also conceptually wrong (epl for example), I would vote for not accepting any duties which come =66rom them. Especially when it is a long awaited task like the removal of the legacy binding. > Bottom line is that, is these drivers are the last ones blocking the > removal of the legacy i2c driver, I will either attempt to convert them > the quick-and-dirty way, or I will mark them as broken and leave it to > somebody else to fix them. They will not delay us. That is nice to hear. I don't think you need to mark them as broken, staging is per se broken :) And please don't spend time on fixing them ;) Regards, Wolfram --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmq4VcACgkQD27XaX1/VRspigCfVvOF8mS+iQtiBcIF9mTeHsk7 GK4AoKPQE8ocO4kiUyDrItqWI72eTjFR =n9WT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq--