Re: patch "staging: remove nokia_hp4p driver

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > 
> > What is going on here? I get flamed for not cleaning up the driver,
> > because I cleaned it up before merging to -staging. Ok, so I did more
> > cleanups, sent 3 cleanup patches, no reaction on those, and now I got
> > a note that you are going to remove the driver...?
> 
> For the 3 "cleanup" patches, the first one was rejected and you said to
> not include it, so I couldn't apply the others.

That was different series. I'm talking about:

[PATCH 1/3] staging: nokia_h4: switch to right types and use bdaddr_t
[PATCH 2/3] staging: nokia_h4: avoid __uX types
[PATCH 3/3] staging: use inlines where it makes sense

That is still valid and received no comments at all.

> > Please don't, I'd still like to clean the driver up and get included,
> > as n900's are still under active use.
> 
> As the Bluetooth maintainer has said a number of times, he doesn't want
> the driver in the tree as it is not doing the correct things.  It's been
> a long time in the tree with no work on it at all, and I follow the
> suggestions of the maintainers of the subsystems that staging drivers
> follow.

You asked for more work and explained how easy it is to revert the
removal.

I did more work, you ignored it, and are removing the driver, anyway.

> I suggest cleaning this up  in your own tree, and then just submitting it
> for inclusion in the "normal" part of the kernel.  That way I'm not

...creating a mess in the history, and fun merge problems for
people actually using the driver :-(. And yes, n900 people actually
are using it and have their own changes on top of it.
									Pavel

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