From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47616 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755033AbcA0XHB (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:07:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:07:00 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Julian Calaby Cc: Glen Lee , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Ksenija =?utf-8?Q?Stanojevi=C4=87?= , linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Dan Carpenter , Kalle Valo Subject: Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Message-ID: <20160127230700.GA13701@kroah.com> (sfid-20160128_000729_111309_DB22CDFA) References: <20160125181220.GJ5325@mwanda> <87r3h2ubcp.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:48:16AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Glen, > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > > Dan Carpenter writes: > > > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:16:56PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojević wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree, I noticed that > >>> wlan-ng driver is maybe ready to be moved out of staging. Are there > >>> any TODO tasks left to do beside checkpatch.pl clean-up? > > > > For questions like this you should CC linux-wireless. > > > >> I happened to look through this code recently. It's terrible. > > > > And uses wireless extensions, yuck. There's a lot of work to get it into > > reasonable shape, fixing checkpatch warnings will not be enough. > > On the same subject, the wilc1000 driver has taken some pretty big > steps in the past few days, how far away do you think it is from > graduating from staging? I have 221 patches in my to-apply queue to be merged for this driver, at the very least, those need to be merged before anyone should review it for graduation. That number also implies that there is still quite a lot to be done, but I would not know for sure until that happens. thanks, greg k-h