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=-10.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,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 634B5C433C1 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4409D6193A for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231258AbhC2Lb7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:31:59 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34704 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230089AbhC2Lbd (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:31:33 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1236::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDDBEC061574 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:31:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=4lRvppfbCatue0pUQcAch4gdEffQ4JoiW/ML1NPhUDw=; b=foH0fTFgYRfbb/cVQVR8Ovrqam /KZjqF3lUagVIdHtQgKb90YbR4X56ol0iZWSYYR+vsIvmC+Hwvbu6VOMknNFebFxvYLyHgmDo53vW hNW03V2TPtlToYogvyy2gdIJKscSvyktW6mluGql+kP0xmP7GWILRthHvmFYtVFZt9BEkOM0H7iDp HG4SHBS3vdC5Xv4VplTPZUp9DuQT9SLPtxKjWeKliMAMed4ULJjgieEItn0AoYt8ejzgAHQW4nIsZ gaTNiKHzQK2C62jJC9PB5BQ4Z9QZEp3RcBE3iFq4VJ3UzR72wjuBg/zR1Q0boX6WMxKPoMRsOSUkE LgEkGy2A==; Received: from willy by casper.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lQq6L-001TcA-Ai; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:30:49 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:30:33 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Manivannan Sadhasivam Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Loic Poulain , Network Development , Du Cheng , Bjorn Andersson Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging Message-ID: <20210329113033.GA351017@casper.infradead.org> References: <20210328122621.2614283-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <20210329105236.GB2763@work> <20210329110741.GC2763@work> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210329110741.GC2763@work> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:37:41PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:03:24PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:22:36PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 14:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the > > > > > net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed > > > > > from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps > > > > > up to maintain it. > > > > > > > > > > Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox > > > > > Cc: Du Cheng > > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know, QRTR/IPCR is still commonly used with Qualcomm-based > > > > platforms for accessing various components of the SoC. > > > > CCing Bjorn and Mani, In case they are interested in taking maintenance of > > > > that. > > > > > > > > > > As Loic said, QRTR is an integral component used in various Qualcomm based > > > upstream supported products like ChromeOS, newer WLAN chipsets (QCA6390) etc... > > > > > > It is unfortunate that no one stepped up so far to maintain it. After > > > having an internal discussion, I decided to pitch in as a maintainer. I'll > > > send the MAINTAINERS change to netdev list now. > > > > Great, can you also fix up the reported problems with the codebase that > > resulted in this "ask for removal"? > > > > Yes, ofc. I do see couple of Syzbot bug reports now... I will look into them. > It turned out I fixed one of them earlier but should've handled all :) >From my point of view, the important patch to get applied is this one: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200605120037.17427-1-willy@infradead.org/