On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:56:00PM +0200, Nitin DHINGRA wrote: >> > Please refresh my memory, why is this going into drivers/staging/ and >> > not into the "real" part of the kernel? >> Putting the code in staging would be convenient so that if there are >> any design/code suggestions it would be easier to incorporate. > > I don't understand. Have you not tried to submit this code to the > correct location already? If not, why not? If so, what was the result > of the submission? That was done by Par-Gunnar some year or two ago. The reason to why it is being submitted to staging FTM is that consensus on the transport mechanism over HCI could not be reached during the patch review. So my suggestion was to apply it in staging so that these who want to change that mechanism can show in patches how they want it to work going forward. The TODO should include an item such as this: - Reach consensus on the HCI transport abstraction Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
