A question about staging driver like pi433

A question about staging driver like pi433

[Sidong Yang]

Hi all,

I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 

In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
If not, It's okay to send patches for it?

Thanks,
Sidong

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Re: A question about staging driver like pi433

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> 
> In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?

Why would it be removed if people still use it?

> If not, It's okay to send patches for it?

Please do!

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: A question about staging driver like pi433

[Sidong Yang]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:20:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> > and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> > staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> > about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> > buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> > 
> > In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
> 
> Why would it be removed if people still use it?

Yeah, I thought there is no user using this device. I realized that it
was bad idea. 
> 
> > If not, It's okay to send patches for it?

Sure, 

Thanks!
Sidong
> 
> Please do!
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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Re: A question about staging driver like pi433

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 11:27:13PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:20:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> > > and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> > > staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> > > about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> > > buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> > > 
> > > In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
> > 
> > Why would it be removed if people still use it?
> 
> Yeah, I thought there is no user using this device. I realized that it
> was bad idea. 

Is there no one using this?  That's kind of hard to determine, and is
a problem we have at times :(

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: A question about staging driver like pi433

[Sidong Yang]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 08:12:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 11:27:13PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:20:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> > > > and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> > > > staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> > > > about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> > > > buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> > > > 
> > > > In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
> > > 
> > > Why would it be removed if people still use it?
> > 
> > Yeah, I thought there is no user using this device. I realized that it
> > was bad idea. 
> 
> Is there no one using this?  That's kind of hard to determine, and is
> a problem we have at times :(

I contacted the hardware developer in personal. And He replied positive.
I would get the pi433 device soon. It would be nice that It can be
tested in practice.

Thanks,
Sidong

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

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