linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtsx: Add support for RTS5260

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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:26:59 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     rui_feng@...lsil.com.cn
Cc:     lee.jones@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, ricky_wu@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtsx: Add support for RTS5260

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 04:50:35PM +0800, rui_feng@...lsil.com.cn wrote:
> From: rui_feng <rui_feng@...lsil.com.cn>
> 
> Add support for new chip rts5260.
> In order to support rts5260，the definitions of some internal
> registers and workflow have to be modified and are different from its
> predecessors and OCP function is added for RTS5260.
> So we need this patch to ensure RTS5260 can work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rui Feng <rui_feng@...lsil.com.cn>

Your from and signed-off-by name does not match :(

> ---
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile              |   4 +
>  drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c            | 127 ++++++-
>  drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.h            |  12 +
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig           |   2 +
>  drivers/staging/rts5260/Kconfig   |   6 +
>  drivers/staging/rts5260/rts5260.c | 748 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/rts5260/rts5260.h |  45 +++
>  include/linux/mfd/rtsx_pci.h      | 234 +++++++++++-

I do not see a reason why this is a staging driver.  Where is the TODO
file listing what needs to be done to get it out of staging?  Why can it
not just go into the "real" part of the kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h