Re: Questions related to some drivers

[Giuliano Belinassi <giuliano.belinassi@gmail.com>]

On 10/18, Ardelean, Alexandru wrote:

Thank you for the reply :-). We will put effort into at least one driver to
remove it from staging.

> Hey,
> 
> Thanks for the notification.
> 
> Yes, all these 3 drivers should be moved out of staging.
> 
> We were planning to start working on them (to move them out of staging),
> but priorities are shifting from one week to the other.
> So, if you guys have the time and are willing to do it, please go ahead,
> and add me, michael.hennerich@analog.com and stefan.popa@analog.com to the
> CC when sending patches, and we will also take a look over your patches.
> 
> If you haven't taken a look already, feel free to also take a look at our
> wiki:
> https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-drivers-all
> It's more technical for the SW side; it might help with some general info.
> And the datasheets should be available on the analog.com/<product_id>
> pages.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 16:00 -0300, Giuliano Belinassi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We are a student group and we want to contribute to the linux kernel. We
> > are thinking in put effort to move a driver from staging to the main
> > tree.
> > We looked into three drivers:
> >   
> >   * adc/ad7780.c
> >   * adc/ad7816.c
> >   * impedance-analyzer/ad5933.c
> > 
> > Are these drivers still being worked on? The last commit referencing
> > these
> > drivers were on march 2018, but they are still in staging since 2010.
> > 
> > We already know that we have to convert from the old api to the new one.
> > It is
> > OK for us to work on this? Is there something else we can do?
> > 
> > Thank you
> > 
> 
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