Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: net: wireless: add ESP8089 WiFi driver | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:52:56 +0200 |
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Hi Quentin,
>>> 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? >> > > OK, I'll work on a TODO list. Is there anything else I should know about > staging drivers so I can address everything at the same time? > > From a driver that has already been cleaned up a bit by Icenowy and > Hans, it took me between 10 and 15 working days to this step, which I > estimate to be around 50% of total clean up (and we're only speaking > about coding style and dead code mainly, nothing about a bit of code > review, code robustness...). I find the code not really easy to follow > (might be because I'm a beginner in the subsystem as well). > > I might not be the most efficient person in cleaning up drivers but I'm > pretty sure this isn't a one day cleanup. (Would be happy to be proven > otherwise :) ), else I would have done it as you suggest.
even if it takes you 1 month to clean it up, get it reviewed on linux-wireless and target wireless-drivers instead of staging. When I had a brief a look at your patch, it didn't look like staging material to me.
Regards
Marcel
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