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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Staging: tidspbridge: disable driver
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:58:23AM +0200, Ivajlo Dimitrov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (re-sending in plain text, sorry for the noise)
> 
> commit 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=930ba4a374b96560ef9fde2145cdc454a164ddcc
> disables tidspbridge driver for the reasons it has a security bug and there 
> is no active maintainer.
> I was following the development of that driver for a bit and my impression 
> was that the reason it is
> still in staging is this 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg84115.html . And as dmtimer
> driver is on its way to be merged upstream(or was it already merged?)  I was 
> planning to work on
> tidspbridge driver to fix it and send the patches. I also have a couple of 
> another small patches
> ready to be send.
> However, could you elaborate on the "security bug" so I can try to fix it 
> and send the patch?
> Also, what needs to be done for the tidspdriver to get out of staging as it 
> seems that what I
> though initially is incorrect.

There is also the very long TODO list in drivers/staging/tidspbridge/

What is the progression on that?

thanks,

greg k-h