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,URIBL_BLOCKED,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 3E8DCC433DB for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F340D61A16 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:08:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230260AbhCYPIZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:08:25 -0400 Received: from gecko.sbs.de ([194.138.37.40]:46881 "EHLO gecko.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231151AbhCYPIH (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 11:08:07 -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 12PF7vaV028108 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:07:57 +0100 Received: from [139.22.38.170] ([139.22.38.170]) by mail2.sbs.de (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 12PEvufl013703; Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:57:56 +0100 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove it from the kernel To: Greg KH Cc: Rob Springer , Todd Poynor , Ben Chan , Richard Yeh , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20210315154413.3084149-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> <30ee6d6b-9206-acad-b224-591fdeb0dad7@siemens.com> From: Jan Kiszka Message-ID: <842fccfa-30a6-d40a-bf9a-8e7dea355666@siemens.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:57:56 +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 25.03.21 15:52, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:46:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> 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? > > What hardware vendor makes this thing? What systems require it? And > why can't you use UIO instead? > >> 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. > > Where are the remote sources for this thing and why didn't they ever get > synced into the kernel tree? > Very good questions, and I'm curious to learn if someone in CC can answer them. I was just starting to play with this thing, using Google's binary Debian repo. But that is not... optimal. Even more when thinking beyond a try-out stage. Jan -- Siemens AG, T RDA IOT Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux