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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Elizabeth Ferdman <gnudevliz@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, amsfield22@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] vc04_services driver question
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:56:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007125608.GA1317@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161007053033.GA13812@localhost>

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:30:34PM -0700, Elizabeth Ferdman wrote:
> I noticed a new driver vc04_services was just added and that the Kconfig
> says it depends on BROKEN. The tutorial specifically says not to work on
> drivers that have that in the depends on line. However, I also noticed
> that patches were being accepted for rtl8712 and greybus and those
> have BROKEN in the Kconfig as well... so is it ok to submit patches for
> that one or even a patchset?

Yes, but make sure your patches don't make the code worse.  You might be
able to build BROKEN code under some conditions.

And the vc04_services code will get that option removed real soon, I
have a patchset in my queue to fix up the obvious build issues.  Feel
free to get them out of the driverdevel mailing list archives and apply
them locally if you wish to start working on that code.

thanks,

greg k-h


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-07 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-07  5:30 vc04_services driver question Elizabeth Ferdman
2016-10-07  5:32 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Julia Lawall
2016-10-07 12:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-08  1:39   ` Elizabeth Ferdman
2016-10-09 14:42     ` Greg KH
2016-10-08 18:29   ` Elizabeth Ferdman

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