On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:09 AM Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

Discussing "patented" in a changelog text is a big no-no.  Please don't
do that.  Talk to your corporate lawyers for why not...

Interesting. I will definitely have to investigate what's covered by those
patents.

Why are you adding support for new things here?  New hardware support
should _only_ be added once the code is out of staging, otherwise there
is no pressure to get it out of this directory structure.

Because I am adding configuration support, and the existing supported h/w
does not require this to operate. So I thought it'd make sense to add at
least one in-kernel user of the new config interface.

Would it be a better strategy to add an (optional) config interface to the
existing supported h/w in staging/, rather than introducing new h/w ?