On 25.03.21 15:52, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:46:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> 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? > > What hardware vendor makes this thing? What systems require it? And > why can't you use UIO instead? > >> 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. > > Where are the remote sources for this thing and why didn't they ever get > synced into the kernel tree? > Very good questions, and I'm curious to learn if someone in CC can answer them. I was just starting to play with this thing, using Google's binary Debian repo. But that is not... optimal. Even more when thinking beyond a try-out stage. Jan -- Siemens AG, T RDA IOT Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
