Re: [PATCH] staging: Add ST-Ericsson CG2900 driver

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Oct 23 2012 - 04:48:17 EST


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:56:00PM +0200, Nitin DHINGRA wrote:
>> > Please refresh my memory, why is this going into drivers/staging/ and
>> > not into the "real" part of the kernel?
>> Putting the code in staging would be convenient so that if there are
>> any design/code suggestions it would be easier to incorporate.
>
> I don't understand. Have you not tried to submit this code to the
> correct location already? If not, why not? If so, what was the result
> of the submission?

That was done by Par-Gunnar some year or two ago.

The reason to why it is being submitted to staging FTM is
that consensus on the transport mechanism over HCI could not be
reached during the patch review.

So my suggestion was to apply it in staging so that these who
want to change that mechanism can show in patches how they
want it to work going forward.

The TODO should include an item such as this:

- Reach consensus on the HCI transport abstraction

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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