On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 09:54:06AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > Hi Fabio, > > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:49 AM Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm trying to make my way in linux kernel device driver development and > > hopefully find a job soon. If the task 'moving fieldbus out of staging' will > > give me opportunity to play with real hardware, and so gain more experience, > > we can talk about it. > > Thank you so much for the offer, I really appreciate it ! > > The fieldbus subsystem sits in staging mainly because it's in use by > only a single company. Greg KH was absolutely right to insist that > this had to go into staging: a subsystem is different from a simple > driver, and can only thrive if it's actively used by a wide community. > You can see this in the subsystem's TODO: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/fieldbus/TODO?h=v5.12 for this TODO, one should identify first target people who could be interested in Fieldbus. > > In short, this cannot be taken out of staging by "pure technical > work". Except if you had a fieldbus client device on your hands, and > you wanted to talk to it through this subsystem. no I don't, these seems to be industrial devices and I don't know how could I bring home such stuff. > > Sven thank you for your answer Sven, fabio
