linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host controller driver

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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:27:44 +0200
From:   Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Nishka Dasgupta <nishkadg.linux@...il.com>,
        Sumit Pundir <pundirsumit11@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
        "Frank A. Cancio Bello" <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com>,
        Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: octeon-usb: delete the octeon usb host
 controller driver

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:19:57PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:31:54PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This driver was merged back in 2013 and shows no progress toward every
> > > being merged into the "correct" part of the kernel.
> > 
> > Do you mean all the patches since 2013 were "no progress"? Thanks.
> 
> I have not seen any proposals to get it out of staging at all.  If the
> only thing left really is just those two simple TODO lines, then why has
> it taken 6 years to do that?

Do you mean you did not see the below thread when I asked for help;
it was a kind of propsal, no? Also things take time when you are just a
hobbyist reverse engineering undocumented hardware that you also run in
production. Yes, I'm slow, but the starting point wasn't also a very good.

https://marc.info/?t=155839354700002&r=1&w=2

I don't mind you deleting the driver, and if you think that "no progress"
is true then I'm very sorry for all those commits/noise.

A.