From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
"open list:STAGING SUBSYSTEM" <linux-staging@lists.linux.dev>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>,
Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Subject: Re: TODO list for staging/r8188eu
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:33:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSJgJFEIGQEo30jB@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2099975.VbY6Rib6K3@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 03:50:14PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On Sunday, August 22, 2021 2:36:57 PM CEST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 09:41:20AM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > > Dear Larry, Philip,
> > >
> > > >From what I understand how the development process works, drivers in
> staging
> > >
> > > should have a to-do list in the TODO file. Please read https://
> www.kernel.org/
> > > doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.html?highlight=todo#staging-trees.
> > >
> > > Could you (as the maintainers of the r8188eu driver) please compile and
> > > provide the above mentioned list?
> >
> > Why don't you provide an initial list for people to work off of if you
> > feel it is needed here?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Unfortunately I'm not able to tell what is needed to do to have a driver
> improved so that it can be moved off staging. This work should be better
> addressed by someone who is much more experienced.
>
> For example, I read from other drivers TODO lists that cfg80211 and lib80211
> are required but I don't know what they are.
Those are two things that are also required here as well, like all
in-kernel wifi drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-22 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-22 7:41 TODO list for staging/r8188eu Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-22 12:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-22 13:50 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-22 14:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-08-22 15:09 ` Phillip Potter
2021-08-22 15:09 ` Phillip Potter
2021-08-22 16:13 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-08-23 0:00 ` Phillip Potter
2021-08-23 0:00 ` Phillip Potter
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=YSJgJFEIGQEo30jB@kroah.com \
--to=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=fmdefrancesco@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-staging@lists.linux.dev \
--cc=martin@kaiser.cx \
--cc=phil@philpotter.co.uk \
--cc=straube.linux@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.