Re: Anybody working on tidspbridge?

Tony Lindgren
2014-07-09T07:07:28Z

* Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com> [140708 11:40]:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On 07/08/2014 09:36 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Peter Meerwald wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>>> Given the total lack of response here, I suggest just deleting the
> >>>> driver. No one has ever done the "real work" that is going to be
> >>>> required to get this code out of staging. It has had build errors
> >>>> causing it to not even be usable for some kernel versions with no one
> >>>> noticing, so I doubt anyone cares about it anymore here.
> >>>
> >>> Cc'ing some more people who might be interested. If no one offers to
> >>> work on the driver in the next couple of days, I'll send a patch to
> >>> remove it.
> >>
> >> I'm using the driver (with kernel 3.7) and it works reasonably well for
> >> me; removing it seems a bit harsh.
> >
> > Using it is different from being able to maintain the code and move it
> > out of the staging tree. Also, 3.7 is really old and obsolete, not much
> > we can do with that kernel version :)
> >
> > Are you able to work on the code and do the effort needed to get it out
> > of the staging tree? If so, great, if not, we are going to have to
> > delete it, sorry.
>
> I agree with Greg here. In fact, the current TODO does not do enough
> justice to the amount of work required to make it even work on the
> latest kernel. Most of the TIers who worked on this driver have moved on
> as Kristina would have figured with her bounced emails. So I do suggest
> that this driver be deleted from the kernel tree. If there are enough
> number of folks using it (not sure how many are out there), it can be
> worked on out-of-tree and brought back in a cleaner fashion rather than
> keeping a broken stale driver in the kernel.

I agree, not much has improved with this driver since it got added into
staging except just compile fixes.

Regards,

Tony