Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Du Cheng <ducheng2@gmail.com>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] qrtr: move to staging
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:30:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210329113033.GA351017@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210329110741.GC2763@work>

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:37:41PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 01:03:24PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:22:36PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Loic Poulain wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 14:28, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > There does not seem to be any developers willing to maintain the
> > > > > net/qrtr/ code, so move it to drivers/staging/ so that it can be removed
> > > > > from the kernel tree entirely in a few kernel releases if no one steps
> > > > > up to maintain it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > > > > Cc: Du Cheng <ducheng2@gmail.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > As far as I know, QRTR/IPCR is still commonly used with Qualcomm-based
> > > > platforms for accessing various components of the SoC.
> > > > CCing Bjorn and Mani, In case they are interested in taking maintenance of
> > > > that.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > As Loic said, QRTR is an integral component used in various Qualcomm based
> > > upstream supported products like ChromeOS, newer WLAN chipsets (QCA6390) etc...
> > > 
> > > It is unfortunate that no one stepped up so far to maintain it. After
> > > having an internal discussion, I decided to pitch in as a maintainer. I'll
> > > send the MAINTAINERS change to netdev list now.
> > 
> > Great, can you also fix up the reported problems with the codebase that
> > resulted in this "ask for removal"?
> > 
> 
> Yes, ofc. I do see couple of Syzbot bug reports now... I will look into them.
> It turned out I fixed one of them earlier but should've handled all :)

From my point of view, the important patch to get applied is this one:

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200605120037.17427-1-willy@infradead.org/