On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote: > Acked-by: Rob Springer <rspringer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket >> drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress >> to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the >> code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups >> for code that will never get out of staging. >> >> If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then >> cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it. >> >> Cc: Rob Springer <rspringer@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Richard Yeh <rcy@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> OK, so is there a plan of the HW vendor to improve the user experience for this hardware? Is there a different software architecture in sight which will not need a kernel driver? Just wondering loudly while fiddling with dkms packages and starring at the code diffs between what was removed here and what I still have to install manually from remote sources. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, T RDA IOT Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
