Re: [PATCH v10 0/1] wfx: get out from the staging area

Jérôme Pouiller
2022-02-28T16:01:15Z

+ Rob
+ devicetree

On Saturday 26 February 2022 11:41:41 CET Kalle Valo wrote:
> + jakub
>
> Jerome Pouiller <Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com> writes:
>
> > The firmware and the PDS files (= antenna configurations) are now a part of
> > the linux-firmware repository.
> >
> > All the issues have been fixed in staging tree. I think we are ready to get
> > out from the staging tree for the kernel 5.18.
>
> [...]
>
> > rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{staging => }/net/wireless/silabs,wfx.yaml (98%)
>
> I lost track, is this file acked by the DT maintainers now?

Indeed, it seems Greg applied this patch[1] before Rob acked it.
However, the is DT now included in "make dt_binding_check" (because
it is now located in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/) and Rob
haven't raised any red flag.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220217103248.183770-1-Jerome.Pouiller@silabs.com/t/

> What I suggest is that we queue this for v5.19. After v5.18-rc1 is
> released I could create an immutable branch containing this one commit.
> Then I would merge the branch to wireless-next and Greg could merge it
> to the staging tree, that way we would minimise the chance of conflicts
> between trees.

Right.

> Greg, what do you think? Would this work for you? IIRC we did the same
> with wilc1000 back in 2020 and I recall it went without hiccups.

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Jérôme Pouiller