Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove it from the kernel
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Date: 2021-03-25 14:47:23
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On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote:
Acked-by: Rob Springer <redacted> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups for code that will never get out of staging. If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it. Cc: Rob Springer <redacted> Cc: Todd Poynor <redacted> Cc: Ben Chan <redacted> Cc: Richard Yeh <redacted> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
OK, so is there a plan of the HW vendor to improve the user experience for this hardware? Is there a different software architecture in sight which will not need a kernel driver? Just wondering loudly while fiddling with dkms packages and starring at the code diffs between what was removed here and what I still have to install manually from remote sources. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, T RDA IOT Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux