Re: Anybody working on ced1401?

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On 14/07/14 11:28, Luca Ellero wrote:
> On 13/07/2014 18:46, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 05:11:45PM +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
>>> Hi Greg,
>>> 
>>> On 27/06/2014 16:55, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:04:43PM +0200, Luca Ellero wrote:
>>>>> Il 26/06/2014 21:23, Greg KH ha scritto:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:36:17AM +0200, Alois Schloegl
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2014-06-18 13:33, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Alois,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging
>>>>>>>> tree. I noticed that nobody seems to have worked
>>>>>>>> towards moving ced1401 out of staging in over a year.
>>>>>>>> Are there any plans to clean it up and move it out 
>>>>>>>> soon? Because otherwise we're going to have to delete
>>>>>>>> the driver, as we don't want staging to become a
>>>>>>>> permanent place for unfinished code.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks, Kristina
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Kristina,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> thanks for the notice. Please, give me some time for
>>>>>>> checking here how we want to go forward with this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What do you mean by this?  You all have had a lot of time,
>>>>>> with no real progress at all?  How about we delete the
>>>>>> driver and if you decide to continue to work on it, we can
>>>>>> revert that deletion and go from there?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> greg k-h
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi, I have a hundred patches for this driver ready to send.
>>>> 
>>>> Why have you not sent them previously?  What is preventing you
>>>> to send them?
>>> 
>>> Because it's only for a few weeks that I've been working on
>>> them.
>>> 
>>>>> They basically convert all "camelCase" and "Hungarian
>>>>> notation" names to Linux convention and fix some checkpatch
>>>>> errors (no logic is modified).
>>>> 
>>>> Do you have this hardware to test the code with?  Do you want
>>>> to work on getting this driver merged out of the staging tree?
>>> 
>>> I used to have one CED1401, but unfortunately I don't have it any
>>> more. Anyway if Alois (or someone else) can test the patches it
>>> would be great. I can do a bit more work to get this driver out
>>> of staging.
>> 
>> As you don't have the hardware anymore, does it make much sense to
>> keep working on the driver?  I'd recommend just deleting it, if
>> someone shows up with the hardware later, we can always revert it.
>
> Hi Greg,
> I agree. Without hardware, it's very hard to go ahead.
> I sent the patches in the hope that someone can test them.
> But if no one is interested, I have no objection in removing the driver.
> regards
> Luca

Thanks, Luca. Since no one with the hardware seems interested right now,
I'm going to go ahead and remove the driver.

Kristina
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