On 26 11月 21 07:43:34, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:18:59AM +0800, Cai Huoqing wrote: > > ZHOUYI NPU is an AI accelerator chip which is integrated into ARM SOC, > > such as Allwinner R329 SOC. > > Add driver support for this AI accelerator here. > > > > This driver is not standard linux style, there are some clean up works, > > fixing code style, refactorring. > > And it only works with a closed source usermode driver, so need to > > reverse the libraries, and impelement it, then open source > > the usermode driver. > > So add this driver to linux-staging > > Sorry, but no, I can not take this driver into the kernel tree until > there is an open source user of the new api that you are creating with > this driver. This was discussed many times on the linux-kernel mailing > list and at the Linux kernel summit a few months ago (see the summary at > lwn.net about it.) > > So please work on that first, and then we will be glad to revisit taking > this kernel driver into the tree. OK, I will do that. And after doing some clean up, try to take this code to the "real" linux tree. Thanks, Cai > > Also, it is much simpler just to take a few hours and clean up the > coding style issues yourself rather than relying on the community to do > it for you over a few months. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
