Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: fieldbus: anybus: Refuse registering drivers without .probe()

[Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 09:54:06AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:49 AM Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to make my way in linux kernel device driver development and
> > hopefully find a job soon. If the task 'moving fieldbus out of staging' will
> > give me opportunity to play with real hardware, and so gain more experience,
> > we can talk about it.
> 
> Thank you so much for the offer, I really appreciate it !
> 
> The fieldbus subsystem sits in staging mainly because it's in use by
> only a single company. Greg KH was absolutely right to insist that
> this had to go into staging: a subsystem is different from a simple
> driver, and can only thrive if it's actively used by a wide community.
> You can see this in the subsystem's TODO:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/fieldbus/TODO?h=v5.12

for this TODO, one should identify first target people who
could be interested in Fieldbus.

> 
> In short, this cannot be taken out of staging by "pure technical
> work". Except if you had a fieldbus client device on your hands, and
> you wanted to talk to it through this subsystem.

no I don't, these seems to be industrial devices and I don't
know how could I bring home such stuff.

> 
> Sven

thank you for your answer Sven,

fabio