On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 08:53 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote: > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 06:23 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 17:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > Again, that's not my decision. I can go either way. But if > > > > the > > > > decision was made to delete it, I think the 4.10 version should > > > > also be > > > > deleted because the same logic applies. Nothing uses it 4.10 > > > > either > > > > and 4.10 is still an RC. > > > > > > Nah. No rush. We can delete it in another kernel release or two > > > if > > > we > > > can't figure out the issue. > > > > > > Let's first figure out why the other code hasn't been > > > upstreamed. > > > You > > > must have at least looked at it to be sending these patches. Do > > > you > > > know what the story is? > > > > No, not really. Some of it may simply be that nobody has taken the > > time to upstream them. > > > > Some of it my be the nature of the RPI which is fundamentially(at > > least > > the history of it), a toy. Either for children or people that want > > to > > tinker with things. So some of the downstream code doesn't always > > follow all the rules that upstream drivers would. Because like I > > said > > at least historically, it's a toy. > > > > I have submitted some small changes to the drivers that hook into > > vc04_services mostly for HDMI audio. But it's only small > > changes... > > > > Like I said, my goal here was simply to get ARM64 to work on the > > RPI3 > > and HDMI audio was important to me. And vc04_services was > > necessary > > So Greg/Dan/Eric: > > Have we come to any conclusion on how things are going to proceed > with > this driver? > > If you want to upstream the other drivers, that's fine by me. In my > spare time I'll try to submit improvements to them. But at the same > time, I didn't upstream vc04_services, so I don't see why the burden > or > decision to upstream the other drivers should necessarily fall on > me. > I didn't write any of these drivers... I'm just some guy that's > trying > to submit improvements to them specifically for ARM64... > BTW, if you're interested in upstreaming the other drivers they are available on the RPI kernel github tree at: http://www.github.com/raspberrypi/linux Or you can get the rest of the drivers from whoever submitted the initial patch for vc04_services. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
