Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in v4.12 ?

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 25 2017 - 14:03:19 EST


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:54:02AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:50:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > would you be open to accepting the tcpm [1] and tcpci [2] drivers into
> > > drivers/staging for v4.12 ?
> >
> > What's the rush?
> >
>
> It has been a long time, and it avoids duplicate work and submissions,
> including for drivers depending on it, such as the fusb302 driver submitted
> by Hans de Goede [1] for which we have a (not yet published) driver based on
> tcpm as well. If for nothing else, it widens the audience.

Ok, fair enough, send away!

And getting a sane fusb302 driver would be great. The ones I have seen
are just so bad...

greg k-h