Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:20:23 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Staging: tidspbridge: disable driver |
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:58:23AM +0200, Ivajlo Dimitrov wrote: > Hi, > > (re-sending in plain text, sorry for the noise) > > commit > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=930ba4a374b96560ef9fde2145cdc454a164ddcc > disables tidspbridge driver for the reasons it has a security bug and there > is no active maintainer. > I was following the development of that driver for a bit and my impression > was that the reason it is > still in staging is this > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg84115.html . And as dmtimer > driver is on its way to be merged upstream(or was it already merged?) I was > planning to work on > tidspbridge driver to fix it and send the patches. I also have a couple of > another small patches > ready to be send. > However, could you elaborate on the "security bug" so I can try to fix it > and send the patch? > Also, what needs to be done for the tidspdriver to get out of staging as it > seems that what I > though initially is incorrect.
There is also the very long TODO list in drivers/staging/tidspbridge/
What is the progression on that?
thanks,
greg k-h
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