Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1320146

Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging?

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:28:38AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 09:48:16AM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> >> Hi Glen,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >> > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:
> >> >
> >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:16:56PM +0100, Ksenija Stanojević wrote:
> >> >>> Hi All,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree, I noticed that
> >> >>> wlan-ng driver is maybe ready to be moved out of staging. Are there
> >> >>> any TODO tasks left to do beside checkpatch.pl clean-up?
> >> >
> >> > For questions like this you should CC linux-wireless.
> >> >
> >> >> I happened to look through this code recently.  It's terrible.
> >> >
> >> > And uses wireless extensions, yuck. There's a lot of work to get it into
> >> > reasonable shape, fixing checkpatch warnings will not be enough.
> >>
> >> On the same subject, the wilc1000 driver has taken some pretty big
> >> steps in the past few days, how far away do you think it is from
> >> graduating from staging?
> >
> > I have 221 patches in my to-apply queue to be merged for this driver, at
> > the very least, those need to be merged before anyone should review it
> > for graduation.  That number also implies that there is still quite a
> > lot to be done, but I would not know for sure until that happens.
> 
> I figured that was the case (there's a _lot_ of churn on that driver)
> however I've noticed the patches recently have swung away from being
> straight checkpatch / coding style cleanups towards feature additions
> and bug fixes, hence my question.

Please feel free to audit it and let us know the details :)

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Move wlan-ng out of staging? Ksenija Stanojević <ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 13:20 +0100
  Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 13:40 +0100
  Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-01-25 19:20 +0100
    Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-27 19:30 +0100
      Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 23:50 +0100
        Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-28 00:10 +0100
          Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-01-28 00:30 +0100
            Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-28 00:40 +0100
              Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging? Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 02:00 +0100

csiph-web