Re: RFC on IIO AD7292 driver GSoC proposal

[Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com>]

On 04/08, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 10:46 PM Marcelo Schmitt
> <marcelo.schmitt1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > My name is Marcelo Schmitt, I'm a computer science student learning
> > how to contribute to the Linux Kernel in the IIO subsystem. I was told
> > by a friend that Google was encouraging people who contribute to open
> > source projects through the GSoC program and that there was a project
> > for developing a new IIO driver. I intend to continue contributing to
> > IIO and, if possible, engage in this GSoC project. As suggested by
> > GSoC organization, I shared a draft proposal for the project here
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vOegyoC5b90jwLe1PBz4IbKGXaXMozi-RldS5OAZz4Y.
> > It would be really great if anyone could comment on it.
> > Sorry for sending it so close to dead line date.
> >
> 
> Overall doc looks good.
> One note about the steps: ideally the AD7292 driver should not be put
> into staging, it's a new driver.
> Hence there is no reason to have a "move out-of-staging" step.
> 
> The current IIO drivers in staging are there, because initially the
> IIO framework was done in staging, and some drivers were not updated
> because of time/priorities.

Thanks Alexandru.
OK, understood. But where one should commit code for a driver in
development as will be the case for AD7292? iio main tree will
probably not be a good idea. Does any development branch exists?
testing2, compiletest?

> 
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Marcelo