Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2011 19:40:32 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] Intel SST driver update |
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On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 07:36:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> > What's the plan for moving these out of staging? Quite a few of these > > patches feel like moves in the wrong direction, adding more code that's > > going to have problems with mainline rather than addressing the issues > > that prevent merges.
> There is a separate driver being written. In the meantime this driver is > getting updated and maintained because in the real world people have > customers and products to deliver.
Sure, I was just asking if there was a plan to work on this properly - the normal expectation in staging is that we'll see in place refactoring and this series clearly isn't that. You seem a little defensive here...
> It might as well therefore be maintained in tree as out. That seems to > serve Linux users rather better.
Of course, as do most of us, I was mostly making sure that there was a plan here.
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