netdev - Re: Thoughts on staging and on fixing up drivers?

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Message-ID: <CAP8WD_aSE7f31Y9HNJ0h_6CNocB0Yjm_qeDjk=wnBJV16T=F7A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:07:54 -0400
From:   tedheadster <tedheadster@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
        Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@...ltek.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Birming Chiu <birming@...ltek.com>,
        Shaofu <shaofu@...ltek.com>,
        Steven Ting <steventing@...ltek.com>,
        PJ Waskiewicz <pjwaskiewicz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on staging and on fixing up drivers?

>
> Larry, you've migrated a bunch of staging code, and tried various
> approaches.  Do you have any lessons on what has worked and what hasn't
> and if there is anything we can do to make the process better?

I am also quite interested in such work. We asked for a Birds of
Feather discussion at the upcoming Linux Plumbers conference on
exactly this sort of work.

- Matthew