From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756380Ab2IRIGY (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:06:24 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:40146 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754275Ab2IRIGS (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:06:18 -0400 Message-ID: <50582B75.7080608@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:06:13 +0200 From: Johannes Thumshirn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, grabner@icg.tugraz.at Subject: Re: staging: Line6 - Steps needed to get driver out of staging area References: <50560C5F.3020700@gmail.com> <20120917202238.GA18748@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20120917202238.GA18748@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/17/2012 10:22 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 07:29:03PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: >> Hi LKML, >> >> I wanted to ask for the steps that are needed to get the line6 >> driver out of the staging area (apart from minor getpatch.pl fixes). > First try asking on the proper mailing list :) > > Second, it needs to be submitted to the subsystem that it should be in > (i.e. sound, right?) It's up to those maintainers to say what's left to > do. > > Are you willing to help out with this? Right now it doesn't seem like > anyone is using the driver, or helping to clean it up. > > thanks, > > greg k-h Ok, then I'll ask on the sound mailing list for a todo-list. Yes I'm willing to do the maintenance of this driver if the original author doesn't want to take it up again. Thanks for your answer. Johannes