From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2377DC433C1 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:47:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E320C61A2E for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231371AbhCYOq5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:46:57 -0400 Received: from gecko.sbs.de ([194.138.37.40]:42821 "EHLO gecko.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231419AbhCYOqg (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:46:36 -0400 Received: from mail2.sbs.de (mail2.sbs.de [192.129.41.66]) by gecko.sbs.de (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 12PEkBps031174 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:46:11 +0100 Received: from [139.22.38.170] ([139.22.38.170]) by mail2.sbs.de (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 12PEkABT019439; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:46:11 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove it from the kernel To: Rob Springer Cc: Todd Poynor , Ben Chan , Richard Yeh , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org References: <20210315154413.3084149-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> From: Jan Kiszka Message-ID: <30ee6d6b-9206-acad-b224-591fdeb0dad7@siemens.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:46:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote: > Acked-by: Rob Springer > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM wrote: >> >> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> >> As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket >> drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress >> to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the >> code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups >> for code that will never get out of staging. >> >> If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then >> cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it. >> >> Cc: Rob Springer >> Cc: Todd Poynor >> Cc: Ben Chan >> Cc: Richard Yeh >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman OK, so is there a plan of the HW vendor to improve the user experience for this hardware? Is there a different software architecture in sight which will not need a kernel driver? Just wondering loudly while fiddling with dkms packages and starring at the code diffs between what was removed here and what I still have to install manually from remote sources. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, T RDA IOT Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux