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SubjectRe: [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.

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