From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-11.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BE1C433E0 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3361D61A2A for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230140AbhCYOwp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:52:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55406 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230228AbhCYOwf (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:52:35 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BB77619FC; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:52:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1616683955; bh=ANaYj3ch1gtGahdxMwsKFrqXT9ozTgZoAdbtYKveX4M=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=QuBq+Pboh8ELbtdKroOFreFMOcms+2OVhrdOE6KnCV59LEbH6uxVO/JCBCdpiFc2Q nsAdBF0XSzP1mbrgNb+anznpQNLL96NSJ3bNY2V+Gfkh8MdNTUuZAaE1aCyreTKeJk yCL232OPaON/QglO54yCoVGJQemmYrsKbd/UojV8= Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:52:32 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Rob Springer , Todd Poynor , Ben Chan , Richard Yeh , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove it from the kernel Message-ID: References: <20210315154413.3084149-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <30ee6d6b-9206-acad-b224-591fdeb0dad7@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <30ee6d6b-9206-acad-b224-591fdeb0dad7@siemens.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:46:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote: > > Acked-by: Rob Springer > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM wrote: > >> > >> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman > >> > >> As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket > >> drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress > >> to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the > >> code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups > >> for code that will never get out of staging. > >> > >> If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then > >> cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it. > >> > >> Cc: Rob Springer > >> Cc: Todd Poynor > >> Cc: Ben Chan > >> Cc: Richard Yeh > >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > OK, so is there a plan of the HW vendor to improve the user experience > for this hardware? Is there a different software architecture in sight > which will not need a kernel driver? What hardware vendor makes this thing? What systems require it? And why can't you use UIO instead? > Just wondering loudly while fiddling with dkms packages and starring at > the code diffs between what was removed here and what I still have to > install manually from remote sources. Where are the remote sources for this thing and why didn't they ever get synced into the kernel tree? thanks, greg k-h