Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: Driver for downloading Xilinx FPGA image

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:21:06AM -0800, Insop Song wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why is this driver going into the staging directory?  We need a TODO
> > file listing the issues that need to be taken care of in order to be
> > able to move this out of the staging tree, can you please add that to
> > your next version?
> >
> 
> Embedded systems with FPGA requires FPGA programming after the system is booted.
> I've written this driver to program FPGA after linux is booted.

That explains the driver, it doesn't explain why you are adding it to
the drivers/staging/ directory at this point in time.  Why are you
wanting it to live in this location, and not in the "real" part of the
kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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