Re: Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Peter Huewe
2009-09-10T21:57:31Z

Am Saturday 05 September 2009 16:50:35 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:39:51PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:14:30PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > - panel. Another one that should be simple to merge. Anyone?
> >
> > I just got an email from a guy who proposed to work on it and who
> > showed me he's currently running tests and fixing a bug when removing
> > the module.
> >
> > Hopefully he'll make enough progress to get the driver merged.
> >
> > This proves that the principle of the staging tree seems to work,
> > and that your call was useful ;-)
>
> Glad to hear it!

yeah - Greg's call definitely was useful!
Although I'm still not sure if there is a point to getting the driver merged
or not -- see discussion: "staging panel driver"
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-September/001610.html

More opinions/suggestions are welcomed - especially from people who are more
into lcdproc than I am.

However I'm currently working on it anyways - I already eliminated the bug:
while removing the module misc_deregister gets called twice (keypad and led -
both twice) - once in the panel_detach function and once in the
panel_cleanup_module function.

And of course the second call fails :)
I will provide a (very simple :) patch to these issues tomorrow.

Thanks,
Peter