On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:58:18AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:36:36PM +0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 07:37:47PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > we have this sm7xxfb in drivers/staging now which is supporting SM710, > > > SM712, SM721 and SM722. I am also working on another new hardware > > > SM750, which will be ready for staging in next 1 -2 weeks. > > > this SM750 is entirely different hardware and these two drivers will > > > have nothing in common. > > > > Then make a new driver! > ok, but then won't the name sm7xxfb will be misleading? Sure, but really, who cares :) > > But why would a new driver go into staging? Anything new you create > > should just go into the "correct" part of the kernel. Don't waste your > > time on staging. > > this code has been given to me by Silicon Motion, and will require a > few changes before it can be used with current kernel version. And to > merge it into video/fbdev it will require many changes and cleanups. > But to be frank this will have much less work to do compared to > sm7xxfb, but as this is not part of my dayjob i can not give my full > time to it. So I was thinking of staging. Ok, that makes sense, I was thinking this was a "new" driver, instead of a vendor driver crud. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
