Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] staging: fieldbus core: add support for device configuration

Sven Van Asbroeck
2019-10-02T15:43:19Z

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:24 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> If the code works with some subset now, then why not work to get this
> cleaned up properly and out of staging and then add new features like
> this type of configuration system afterward?
>
> Why is this a requirement to add while the code is in staging?

I believe we put this code in staging/ not because there were issues
with the codebase itself. But rather because the subsystem needs
more industry interest and developer sign-offs. The TODO reflects that.

And that will be very hard to do without some form of a config interface,
which this patchset adds.

Perhaps the time isn't ripe for this subsystem yet, although I cannot
believe that we are the only ones running Linux on fieldbus 'gadgets'.