On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:18:59AM +0800, Cai Huoqing wrote: > ZHOUYI NPU is an AI accelerator chip which is integrated into ARM SOC, > such as Allwinner R329 SOC. > Add driver support for this AI accelerator here. > > This driver is not standard linux style, there are some clean up works, > fixing code style, refactorring. > And it only works with a closed source usermode driver, so need to > reverse the libraries, and impelement it, then open source > the usermode driver. > So add this driver to linux-staging Sorry, but no, I can not take this driver into the kernel tree until there is an open source user of the new api that you are creating with this driver. This was discussed many times on the linux-kernel mailing list and at the Linux kernel summit a few months ago (see the summary at lwn.net about it.) So please work on that first, and then we will be glad to revisit taking this kernel driver into the tree. Also, it is much simpler just to take a few hours and clean up the coding style issues yourself rather than relying on the community to do it for you over a few months. thanks, greg k-h
