From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@gmail.com>,
Sumit Pundir <pundirsumit11@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
"Frank A. Cancio Bello" <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>,
Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host controller driver
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 21:19:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191210201957.GB4070187@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191210193153.GB18225@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi>
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This driver was merged back in 2013 and shows no progress toward every
> > being merged into the "correct" part of the kernel.
>
> Do you mean all the patches since 2013 were "no progress"? Thanks.
I have not seen any proposals to get it out of staging at all. If the
only thing left really is just those two simple TODO lines, then why has
it taken 6 years to do that?
> > The code doesn't even build for anyone unless you have the specific
> > hardware platform selected, so odds are it doesn't even work anymore.
>
> I used it in production almost a decade with no issues with unpatched
> mainline kernel. All reported issues were fixed. Last kernel I ran
> was v5.3.
Then why has it not been merged out of staging?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 20:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-10 9:15 [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host controller driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 19:31 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-12-10 21:27 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-11 7:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-04 4:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:15 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 7:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-12-10 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: octeon: delete driver Guenter Roeck
2020-02-04 4:02 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 7:09 ` gregkh
2020-02-04 20:06 ` Chris Packham
2020-02-04 20:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-04 22:53 ` gregkh
2020-02-05 3:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2020-02-05 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-02-05 3:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-05 9:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-02-05 13:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-02-06 8:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-12-10 11:40 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 12:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-12-10 12:54 ` Sandro Volery
2019-12-10 19:46 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 20:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-10 21:48 ` Aaro Koskinen
2019-12-10 22:48 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-11 7:22 ` Dan Carpenter
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