Re: staging/dream header file

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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:21PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Greg KH<greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Randy Dunlap<rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > staging/dream/gpio_*.c all do:
> >> > #include <linux/gpio_event.h>
> >> >
> >> > where is that file?
> >
> > As I outlined in my big "summary of the staging tree", it seems that
> > Google has no plans to help merge any of the staging/android/ code
> > into the main kernel tree.
> >
> > Because of this, and due to stuff like this (come on Pavel, send me
> > patches that build), I'm seriously considering dropping all of
> > drivers/staging/android/ at the moment for the .32 kernel merge.
> >
> > Brian, any objection to this?
> 
> Greg,
> 
> We actually are very interested, but are not likely to have
> significant time to devote to this until mid-late october due to
> schedule pressure for various shipping-this-fall projects.  We tend to
> have a bit of a lull between October and January and my hope is to get
> a bunch of patches cleaned up and out there in this timeframe -- we'll
> also be rebasing our development branches on the latest mainline
> kernel during this time.
> 
> I'm also working to get an engineer dedicated (20% or more time) to
> contribution-to-mainline efforts on an on-going basis in the near
> future, to help improve responsiveness here.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, I'll hold off removing them for .32, but
if by the time the .33 merge window opens up and there is no change,
I'll remove them.  Sound reasonable?

thanks,

greg k-h
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