Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: net: wireless: add ESP8089 WiFi driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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