From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754247Ab0KIRr5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:47:57 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46653 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752437Ab0KIRrz (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:47:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:35:40 -0800 From: Greg KH To: mems applications Cc: carmine.iascone@st.com, matteo.dameno@st.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lis331dlh: add lis331dlh driver Message-ID: <20101109173540.GA20370@suse.de> References: <> <1289323527-5501-1-git-send-email-carmine.iascone@st.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1289323527-5501-1-git-send-email-carmine.iascone@st.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 06:25:27PM +0100, mems applications wrote: > Add STMicroelectronics LIS331DLH digital accelerometer device driver > > From: Carmine Iascone > --- > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/lis331dlh/Kconfig | 7 + > drivers/staging/lis331dlh/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/lis331dlh/lis331dlh.c | 836 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/staging/lis331dlh/lis331dlh.h | 83 ++++ > 6 files changed, 930 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Why is this a staging driver? What is keeping it from being merged to the main portion of the kernel tree? Can you please provide a TODO file that lists the things left to do on it, and provide some email addresses to contact you for it? Look at the other TODO files in drivers/staging/*/TODO for examples. thanks, greg k-h