On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:57:21PM -0400, David Cross wrote: > hi greg, > > >> I noticed that it has been quite a while since you last submitted a > >> patch for the drivers/staging/westbridge/ code in the kernel tree > >> (October 5, 2010 to be exact.) > > Pretty much true, although Sutharsan did post a few patches since then. > > >> Part of being in the staging tree involves the constant development of > >> the code to be reworked into something that is acceptable for merging > >> into the mainline kernel. As it seems like the development of this has > >> stalled, should I just delete the driver for now? > > >> If you ever pick it up again in the future, it is trivial to revert the > >> deletion and continue on with it. > > Given that it is trivial to revert the deletion, I think this is a good plan. Ok, thanks, I've now done this in the staging-next tree. > >> Or are you going to start working on it again? If so, what are your > >> plans? > > >> Let me know what you want me to do. > > I would like to start working on it again, but just have not had the > time for it. Some of the reason for the lack or priority had been the > resistance from the community for any form of file based DMA. Without > this component, I am not really sure how useful getting the driver > into the mainline is. I think you never actually proved that file-based DMA was something that was required, which might have been the big issue. Also the code wasn't clean enough to force other developers to look at your proposal in order to be able to properly judge if that kind of DMA was viable and useful. > Thanks a lot for your help getting this into the staging area. I > expect to start working on it again in the future such that this > effort won't be wasted. However, since I don't have a definite > timeline, I think we can delete for now. Should I be taking a snapshot > in order to make sure that the effort won't be lost or can I rely on > the open source mechanisms to be able to retrieve from a kernel tree? Yes, it's not lost, the git commit that deletes the driver can be trivially reverted at any time in the future if anyone wants to pick it up again. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
