From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49710 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934211AbcA0XcX (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:32:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:32:20 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Julian Calaby Cc: "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Ksenija =?utf-8?Q?Stanojevi=C4=87?= , linux-wireless , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Kalle Valo , Dan Carpenter Subject: Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Message-ID: <20160127233220.GA28541@kroah.com> (sfid-20160128_003240_297721_B57173EC) References: <20160125181220.GJ5325@mwanda> <87r3h2ubcp.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <20160127230700.GA13701@kroah.com> 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 10:28:38AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. > > I figured that was the case (there's a _lot_ of churn on that driver) > however I've noticed the patches recently have swung away from being > straight checkpatch / coding style cleanups towards feature additions > and bug fixes, hence my question. Please feel free to audit it and let us know the details :)