linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: net: wireless: add ESP8089 WiFi driver

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Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:01:33 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     ulf.hansson@...aro.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        shawn.lin@...k-chips.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
        baolin.wang@...aro.org, hdegoede@...hat.com,
        maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com,
        thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        icenowy@...c.xyz, wens@...e.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: net: wireless: add ESP8089 WiFi driver

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:35:01PM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> 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@...hat.com>
> Cc: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.xyz>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@...e-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?

Also, staging drivers have to be "stand-alone", I can't take stuff that
requires core changes only for one staging driver.

thanks,

greg k-h