On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:55:19AM -0800, sostalle wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:24:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:42:57PM -0800, Stephanie Wallick wrote: > >> --- /dev/null > >> +++ b/drivers/staging/mausb/TODO > >> @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > >> +TODO: > >> + - checkpatch.pl cleanups > > > >Is this still true? > > > > checkpatch.pl reports: > total: 7 errors, 208 warnings, 10489 lines checked Ok, fair enough. > >And why does this need to be a staging driver? What's wrong with making > >it a "real" driver now? > > > > The short answer is: We don't think it's ready to be "real". > > We didn't want to release it as a "real" driver because: > - It's not stable enough yet. > - It doesn't implement all the features required by the MA USB spec. > - The MA USB spec isn't standalone. It requires a supplemental spec > to define media-specific behavior, like how MA USB packets are > encapsulated, how to discover MA USB devices on a network, etc. > So far, no media-specific specifications have been published. > - There are no commercially-available Media Agnostic USB devices. > > We wanted to release it to staging now because: > - We have received requests from multiple companies for our host MA USB > driver. Putting it in staging seemed the best way to distribute it. > - We feel that releasing what we have to staging now could promote > collaboration on one driver & help prevent duplicate work. Ok, please include that information in the first email, it's much more helpful :) Can you resend this series, and cc: the linux-usb mailing list, and address the "what about usbip?" questions as well? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
