Re: [linux-sunxi] Cedrus driver

From: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@micronovasrl.com>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas van Kleef <thomas@vitsch.nl>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	Andreas Baierl <list@imkreisrum.de>,
	linux-sunxi <linux-sunxi@googlegroups.com>,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, wens@csie.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] Cedrus driver
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:03:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6A617A27-DBE8-4537-A122-6ACA98B8A6B4@micronovasrl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171128125203.h7cnu3gkfmogqhxu@flea.home>

Hi,

> Il giorno 28 nov 2017, alle ore 13:52, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> ha scritto:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:54:08PM +0100, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>>>>> Should I be working in sunxi-next I wonder?
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, this is the best way, cedrus is very specific to sunxi.
>>>> So before working on mainline, I think the best is to work un sunxi-next branch.
>>> 
>>> Is the requests2 api in sunxi-next?
>> 
>> It should be there,
>> take a look at latest commit of yesterday:
>> https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/commit/df7cacd062cd84c551d7e72f15b1af6d71abc198
> 
> No, it shouldn't. sunxi-next is about patches that are related to
> sunxi that have been accepted in their respective maintainers'
> branches.
> 
> While we could argue about the first criteria, the second one is not
> respected.
> 
> And really, just develop against 4.14. sunxi-next is rebased, and it's
> just not something you can base some work on.

Where do we can work on then?
Should Thomas setup his own github repo?
What about the one you’ve set up @free-electrons?

> 
> Maxime
> 
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