Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in v4.12 ?

From	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in v4.12 ?
Date	2017-04-25 20:30 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:02:54PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:54:02AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:50:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > Hi Greg,
> > > > 
> > > > would you be open to accepting the tcpm [1] and tcpci [2] drivers into
> > > > drivers/staging for v4.12 ?
> > > 
> > > What's the rush?
> > > 
> > 
> > It has been a long time, and it avoids duplicate work and submissions,
> > including for drivers depending on it, such as the fusb302 driver submitted
> > by Hans de Goede [1] for which we have a (not yet published) driver based on
> > tcpm as well. If for nothing else, it widens the audience.
> 
> Ok, fair enough, send away!
> 
> And getting a sane fusb302 driver would be great.  The ones I have seen
> are just so bad...
> 

It should hopefully be less insane :-). Looking forward to get your feedback.
We are still trying to figure out if there is anything we have to watch out
for before we can make it available; it is currently sitting in a private
Android branch and we don't want to get into trouble. Most likely we are just
over-cautious. Should hopefully be a matter of days.

Thanks,
Guenter

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typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in v4.12 ? Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-04-25 19:00 +0200
  Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in  v4.12 ? Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-25 19:40 +0200
    Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in  v4.12 ? Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-04-25 20:00 +0200
      Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in  v4.12 ? Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-25 20:10 +0200
        Re: typec: tcpm/tcpci drivers acceptable for drivers/staging in  v4.12 ? Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-04-25 20:30 +0200

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