Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers:bluetooth: TI_ST bluetooth driver

Gustavo F. Padovan
2010-10-07T22:08:48Z

* Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2010-10-07 14:30:18 -0700]:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:51:48PM -0300, Gustavo F. Padovan wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2010-10-07 07:34:09 -0700]:
> >
> > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:05:48PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > > Hi Pavan,
> > > >
> > > > > This is the bluetooth protocol driver for the TI WiLink7 chipsets.
> > > > > Texas Instrument's WiLink chipsets combine wireless technologies
> > > > > like BT, FM, GPS and WLAN onto a single chip.
> > > > >
> > > > > This Bluetooth driver works on top of the TI_ST shared transport
> > > > > line discipline driver which also allows other drivers like
> > > > > FM V4L2 and GPS character driver to make use of the same UART interface.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > drivers/bluetooth/bt_ti.c | 463 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > drivers/staging/ti-st/bt_drv.c | 509 ----------------------------------------
> > > > > drivers/staging/ti-st/bt_drv.h | 61 -----
> > > > > 3 files changed, 463 insertions(+), 570 deletions(-)
> > > > > create mode 100644 drivers/bluetooth/bt_ti.c
> > > > > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/ti-st/bt_drv.c
> > > > > delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/ti-st/bt_drv.h
> > > >
> > > > I don't care about staging at all. So you sort that out with Greg.
> > > >
> > > > Submit your driver for upstream inclusion. And once accepted you can pin
> > > > Greg about removing it.
> > >
> > > The driver is already in staging, this is the request to move it out of
> > > staging and into the "correct" place in the tree. The core of the ti-st
> > > code is now in the drivers/misc/ directory in the linux-next tree, and
> > > this patch is the request to move the bluetooth drive into the proper
> > > drivers/bluetooth/ location.
> >
> > I'm wondering why this driver never touched linux-bluetooth before. It
> > is on staging because it is not ready for a proper merge and while it is
> > not ready it needs the comments from the bluetooth developers here to
> > get it ready for merge in drivers/bluetooth. So why this never arrived
> > here before?
>
> This is the exact reason _why_ it is being sent here now. To get the
> review of the bluetooth developers for any changes that are needed to
> get it merged into the proper place in the tree.

Yes, but IMHO it took to long, from what I looked this drivers was merged
in stage about May and the patches arrived in linux-bluetooth only in
October. Is there a reason for such delay? That's is something we need
to fix for the next bluetooth drivers we want to merge, so the developers
can get feedback earlier.

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Gustavo F. Padovan
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