From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1432454AbdDYRiA (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:38:00 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60834 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1429576AbdDYRhw (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:37:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:37:42 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heikki Krogerus , badhri@google.com, Oliver Neukum , Mats Karrman , Felipe Balbi , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in v4.12 ? Message-ID: <20170425173742.GA20305@kroah.com> References: <20170425165031.GA10159@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170425165031.GA10159@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.2 (2017-04-18) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:50:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi Greg, > > would you be open to accepting the tcpm [1] and tcpci [2] drivers into > drivers/staging for v4.12 ? What's the rush? > The drivers are not ready for prime time, yet there is interest by others > to have them available and to help improving the code. I could create a > repository/branch at github to enable that, but drivers/staging seems to be > a better approach. Sure, if you want to maintain it in the kernel, and send me patches that way for changes, I'll be glad to take them into staging, just send me a patch that adds them to the tree and I'll merge them for 4.12-rc1. thanks, greg k-h