* Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx> [140708 11:40]: > Hi Peter, > > On 07/08/2014 09:36 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 03:03:58PM +0200, Peter Meerwald wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >>>> Given the total lack of response here, I suggest just deleting the > >>>> driver. No one has ever done the "real work" that is going to be > >>>> required to get this code out of staging. It has had build errors > >>>> causing it to not even be usable for some kernel versions with no one > >>>> noticing, so I doubt anyone cares about it anymore here. > >>> > >>> Cc'ing some more people who might be interested. If no one offers to > >>> work on the driver in the next couple of days, I'll send a patch to > >>> remove it. > >> > >> I'm using the driver (with kernel 3.7) and it works reasonably well for > >> me; removing it seems a bit harsh. > > > > Using it is different from being able to maintain the code and move it > > out of the staging tree. Also, 3.7 is really old and obsolete, not much > > we can do with that kernel version :) > > > > Are you able to work on the code and do the effort needed to get it out > > of the staging tree? If so, great, if not, we are going to have to > > delete it, sorry. > > I agree with Greg here. In fact, the current TODO does not do enough > justice to the amount of work required to make it even work on the > latest kernel. Most of the TIers who worked on this driver have moved on > as Kristina would have figured with her bounced emails. So I do suggest > that this driver be deleted from the kernel tree. If there are enough > number of folks using it (not sure how many are out there), it can be > worked on out-of-tree and brought back in a cleaner fashion rather than > keeping a broken stale driver in the kernel. I agree, not much has improved with this driver since it got added into staging except just compile fixes. Regards, Tony _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
