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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Dan, Greg, On 17/09/2020 10:47, Dan Scally wrote: > Hi Greg - thanks for the comments, appreciate it (sorry there's so many, > I'm new to both C and kernel work) > > On 17/09/2020 08:53, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:36:18PM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote: >>> MAINTAINERS | 6 + >>> drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c | 67 +++- >> staging drivers should be self-contained, and not modify stuff outside >> of drivers/staging/ >> >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/Kconfig | 15 + >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/Makefile | 1 + >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/cio2-bridge.c | 448 +++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Why does this have to be in drivers/staging/ at all? Why not spend the >> time to fix it up properly and get it merged correctly? It's a very >> small driver, and should be smaller, so it should not be a lot of work >> to do. And it would be faster to do that than to take it through >> staging... > I was just under the impression that that was the process to be honest, > if that's not right I'll just move it directly to drivers/media/ipu3 The IPU3 driver is still in staging (unless I've missed something), so I think this cio2-bridge should stay with it. Hopefully with more users of the IPU3 brought in by this cio2-bridge, that will help gather momentum to get the IPU3 developments required completed and moved into drivers/media. -- Regards -- Kieran From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C037C433E2 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (smtp1.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C6A42074B for ; 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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB X-BeenThere: driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux Driver Project Developer List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, robh@kernel.org, jorhand@linux.microsoft.com, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kitakar@gmail.com, sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com, bingbu.cao@intel.com, mchehab@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, tian.shu.qiu@intel.com, yong.zhi@intel.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" Hi Dan, Greg, On 17/09/2020 10:47, Dan Scally wrote: > Hi Greg - thanks for the comments, appreciate it (sorry there's so many, > I'm new to both C and kernel work) > > On 17/09/2020 08:53, Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:36:18PM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote: >>> MAINTAINERS | 6 + >>> drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c | 67 +++- >> staging drivers should be self-contained, and not modify stuff outside >> of drivers/staging/ >> >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/Kconfig | 15 + >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/Makefile | 1 + >>> drivers/staging/media/ipu3/cio2-bridge.c | 448 +++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Why does this have to be in drivers/staging/ at all? Why not spend the >> time to fix it up properly and get it merged correctly? It's a very >> small driver, and should be smaller, so it should not be a lot of work >> to do. And it would be faster to do that than to take it through >> staging... > I was just under the impression that that was the process to be honest, > if that's not right I'll just move it directly to drivers/media/ipu3 The IPU3 driver is still in staging (unless I've missed something), so I think this cio2-bridge should stay with it. Hopefully with more users of the IPU3 brought in by this cio2-bridge, that will help gather momentum to get the IPU3 developments required completed and moved into drivers/media. -- Regards -- Kieran _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel