On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:46:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:

On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote:

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Acked-by: Rob Springer <redacted>


On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM [off-list ref] wrote:

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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?

What hardware vendor makes this thing?  What systems require it?  And
why can't you use UIO instead?

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.

Where are the remote sources for this thing and why didn't they ever get
synced into the kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h