Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 09:28:39 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
        tomi.valkeinen@ti.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: doubt about sm7xxfb (was: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] staging: fsl-mc:
 New functionality to the MC bus driver)
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 02:16:18PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:18:49PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 04:59:01PM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote:
> > > This patch series includes new functionality for the Freescale fsl-mc
> > > bus driver.
> > 
> > Why are people working on "new functionality" instead of working on
> > getting this out of the staging tree?  I really hate adding new
> > functions to staging drivers, as this is not the correct place for
> > drivers to be in the tree.  People should be working to get them out of
> > this location, and then you can add new functions to them.
> Hi Greg,
> Your reply above was for a different thread but my doubt started from
> this. I was working on adding the Dual-Head support to sm7xxfb. So that
> is also a new functionality which is not in the current driver as of now.
> Then should i instead concentrate on getting that out of staging? If yes,
> can you please have a look (when you are free) at it to see if anything
> else needs to be done.

Yes, please work on getting it out of staging.

If you think it's ready, then submit a patch that moves it, copying the
proper maintainers, and I'll be glad to review it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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