Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757967Ab1COOfD (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:35:03 -0400 Received: from ppsw-50.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.150]:59020 "EHLO ppsw-50.csi.cam.ac.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757874Ab1COOfA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:35:00 -0400 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-SpamDetails: not scanned X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Message-ID: <4D7F794F.4050800@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:35:59 +0000 From: Jonathan Cameron User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110122 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Mark Brown , Jean Delvare , mems applications , rdunlap@xenotime.net, carmine.iascone@st.com, matteo.dameno@st.com, rubini@cvml.unipv.it, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck , Greg KH , "linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add STMicroelectronics LPS001WP pressure sensor device driver into misc References: <1300128906-1066-1-git-send-email-matteo.dameno@st.com> <4D7F4944.4070507@cam.ac.uk> <20110315125149.GC17277@sirena.org.uk> <201103151431.22052.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201103151431.22052.arnd@arndb.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1332 Lines: 30 On 03/15/11 13:31, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 15 March 2011, Mark Brown wrote: >>> 2) Basically make a copy. This would look like the original patch set did when we went >> >> A third option is just to lift everything out of staging roughly as it >> is now with anything that definitely needs redoing dropped, addressing >> any review comments for mainline but not doing much else, and then >> resume working on adding additional stuff. It sounds like the userspace >> interfaces that are there at present are mostly OK and most of the >> issues are in-kernel? >> >> You could perhaps have a Kconfig control for disabling any experimental >> features in the API if you want to give people hints about areas that >> are likely to churn. > > I agree, that sounds like a good idea for preparing the code before a split. Indeed a good idea. I'll add one of those. > > Arnd > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/