Re: Staging questions: WAS Re: [PATCH 0/7] Staging submission: PCTV 74e drivers and some cleanup

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 19-10-2011 11:57, Devin Heitmueller escreveu:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm posting this question under this thread because the subject pertains
>> to the question (in that I'm asking about staging and about the PCTV 80e
>> drivers).
> 
> You should definitely be looking at the "as102" thread that is
> currently going on this mailing list.  Piotr is actually going through
> the same process as you are (he is working on upstreaming the as102
> driver from a kernellabs.com tree).  He made some pretty common
> mistakes (all perfectly understandable), and your reading the thread
> might help you avoid them (and having to redo your patch series).
> 
>> I started cleaning up the drx39xx* drivers for the PCTV-80e and have
>> them in a github repository. Ultimately I want to send a pull request,
>> so other people can finish the cleaning (as I'm not comfortable with
>> pulling out the #ifdef statements myself).
> 
> You should definitely ask Mauro how he expects to do a staging driver
> for a demodulator before you do any further work.  The staging tree
> works well for bridge drivers, but demod drivers such as the drx
> require code in the bridge driver (the em28xx in this case), so it's
> not clear how you would do staging for a product where the bridge
> driver isn't in staging as well.  The answer to that question will
> likely guide you in how to get the driver into staging.

Ah yes, good point. Well, just submit it as if it should be added at
the right place, but putting the Kconfig changes in separate. If this
driver is not that different than the other drx drivers, I may try to
find some time to fix it on the same way.

You may also take a look at the history for the drx-k merging patches.
I basically wrote a few small perl scripts to correct coding style, and
a few manual work.

> 
> If you have specific questions regarding anything you see in the
> driver, let me know.  I don't have much time nowadays but will find
> the time if you ask concise questions.
> 
> Good luck.  It will be great to finally see this merged upstream.
> 
> Devin
>