linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver

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Message-ID: <48b93e44-6cd3-03a5-0eb2-4123b3790877@starfivetech.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2023 17:29:08 +0800
From:   Jack Zhu <jack.zhu@...rfivetech.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Robert Foss <rfoss@...nel.org>,
        Todor Tomov <todor.too@...il.com>,
        <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        "Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
        "Laurent Pinchart" <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <changhuang.liang@...rfivetech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver



On 2023/11/7 16:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 04:05:11PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
>> > Also, while you wait, why not just finish off the last 3 items on the
>> > TODO list which would make your code not be required to go into the
>> > staging portion of the tree at all?  You've had a few weeks now, what is
>> > preventing that from happening, and when will that work actually be
>> > done?
>> > 
>> 
>> One of my colleagues is doing related development, but he also has other
>> projects at the same time, so he cannot devote all his efforts to this
>> development. And we expect to use libcamera, which may take some time.
> 
> So that means there is no real plan at all to get this out of the
> staging directory?  If so, why should we take it at all as obviously
> this means that the code is now abandoned?
> 

Hi Greg,

It's not like that, we won't give up on this code. We just want to make
development easier using incremental development. Our developers are already
working on development, but I can't give you an accurate time. There should
be a preliminary version in about 3 months.

-- 
Regards,

Jack Zhu