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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Merge Crystal HD driver with linuxtv.org
From: Steven Newbury <steve@snewbury.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Naren Sankar <nsankar@broadcom.com>,
        Jarod Wilson <jarod@wilsonet.com>, Scott Davilla <davilla@4pi.com>,
        Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 18:15:18 +0000
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On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 09:26 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 05:12:18PM +0000, Steven Newbury wrote:
> > > And these patches do a lot of new work to the driver, I'd rather see it
> > > get fixed up properly and moved out of staging first, before adding new
> > > support to it, otherwise why is it in staging at all?
> > 
> > That last part it a good question, it's been sitting there for 3 years,
> > I assume there are specific things that need improving to get it out of
> > staging?  Would the changes in this patch, without the support for new
> > hw support be sufficient to get that to happen?  I can't test it without
> > that support though...
> 
> See the TODO file for a list of things that need to be resolved.


> - Testing
I can do this for BCM70015 only, hopefully somebody else can test with other
hardware.

> - Cleanup return codes
Specifics?

> - Cleanup typedefs
For the existing staging driver, this one appears done to me.  For the new
code, I notice I've allowed a few to slip back in, I'll fix this.

> - Allocate an Accelerator device class specific Major number,
>   since we don't have any other open sourced accelerators, it is the only
>   one in that category for now.
>   A somewhat similar device is the DXR2/3
Is there a reason this hasn't happened?  (staging drivers don't get new major
numbers allocated?) Did nobody actually request a new class, or has there 
been no agreement on how to proceed?


> 
> I've been remiss in deleting some of the staging drivers lately, and
> this one was on my shortlist for removal, but if you have hardware for
> it, and want to adopt it, I'll gladly take the patches for getting your
> stuff to work if you are going to work toward getting it out of staging.
> 
I'll get it fixed up, I've an incentive to keep it working to keep my
wife happy! ;-) (It enables the network media box in our bedroom to work
with HD content without the fan screaming!)


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