On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 06:15:45PM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > On 2019/10/04 10:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 07:11:54PM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote: > [...] > > > > As this code got moved to staging with the goal to drop it from the > > tree, why are you working on fixing it up? Do you want it moved back > > out of staging into the "real" part of the tree, or are you just fixing > > things that you find in order to make it cleaner before we delete it? > > > > confused, > > > > I expected one of two possible outcomes after moving the qlge driver to > staging: > 1) it gets the attention of people looking for something to work on and > the driver is improved and submitted for normal inclusion in the future > 2) it doesn't get enough attention and the driver is removed > > I don't plan to do further work on it and I'm admittedly not holding my > breath for others to rush in but I already had those patches; it wasn't > a big effort to submit them as a first step towards outcome #1. > > If #2 is a foregone conclusion, then there's little point in applying > the patches. The only benefit I can think of that if the complete > removal is reverted in the future, this specific problem will at least > be fixed. That makes more sense, I'll go queue these up now, as I don't want to waste the work you did on this. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
