linux-kernel - Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging?

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:27:18 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ksenija Stanojević 
	<ksenija.stanojevic@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging?

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:16:56PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojević wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree, I noticed that
>> wlan-ng driver is maybe ready to be moved out of staging. Are there
>> any TODO tasks left to do beside checkpatch.pl clean-up?

For questions like this you should CC linux-wireless.

> I happened to look through this code recently.  It's terrible.

And uses wireless extensions, yuck. There's a lot of work to get it into
reasonable shape, fixing checkpatch warnings will not be enough.

-- 
Kalle Valo