From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752206AbbFMIqj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2015 04:46:39 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f175.google.com ([209.85.192.175]:33824 "EHLO mail-pd0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbbFMIq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2015 04:46:29 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:16:18 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg KH Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com, tomi.valkeinen@ti.com, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: doubt about sm7xxfb (was: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] staging: fsl-mc: New functionality to the MC bus driver) Message-ID: <20150613084618.GA6492@sudip-PC> References: <1433887148-2310-1-git-send-email-German.Rivera@freescale.com> <20150613001849.GB5234@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150613001849.GB5234@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:18:49PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 04:59:01PM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote: > > This patch series includes new functionality for the Freescale fsl-mc > > bus driver. > > Why are people working on "new functionality" instead of working on > getting this out of the staging tree? I really hate adding new > functions to staging drivers, as this is not the correct place for > drivers to be in the tree. People should be working to get them out of > this location, and then you can add new functions to them. Hi Greg, Your reply above was for a different thread but my doubt started from this. I was working on adding the Dual-Head support to sm7xxfb. So that is also a new functionality which is not in the current driver as of now. Then should i instead concentrate on getting that out of staging? If yes, can you please have a look (when you are free) at it to see if anything else needs to be done. regards sudip