Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:01:33 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>
Cc: ulf.hansson@linaro.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
        shawn.lin@rock-chips.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
        baolin.wang@linaro.org, hdegoede@redhat.com,
        maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, icenowy@aosc.xyz, wens@csie.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: net: wireless: add ESP8089 WiFi driver
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:35:01PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> The Espressif ESP8089 WiFi chips can be often found in cheap tablets.
> There is one in A23 Polaroid tablets for example.
> 
> The chip is often embedded as an eMMC SDIO device.
> 
> The code was taken from an out-of-tree repository and has seen a first
> pass in the cleanup process.
> 
> At the moment, there is no publicly available datasheet for this chip.
> 
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Cc: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.xyz>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>

Staging drivers need a TODO file that lists what has to be done to the
code to get it out of staging.  Why not just take a day or so and fix up
the remaining issues and get it into the "real" part of the kernel
correctly?

Also, staging drivers have to be "stand-alone", I can't take stuff that
requires core changes only for one staging driver.

thanks,

greg k-h