Re: [PATCH] Staging: btmtk_usb: Add hdev parameter to hdev->senddriver callback

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Nov 15 2013 - 16:59:59 EST


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:26:41PM +0900, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> >> while this is patch is correct, I do not really care about staging drivers that actually bluntly violate my copyright.
> >>
> >
> > That's very cryptic.
> >
> > What is going on here? I googled it and I wasn't able to find what you
> > are talking about. Care to give us a hint and what you want us to do
> > here?
>
> the last time I checked, the majority of drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c has been written by myself. Now go and compare btusb.c to btmtk_usb.[ch].
>
> > I have also added Johan Hedberg to the CC list because he also helped
> > break the build. Don't do that.
>
> Yes, we are doing exactly that. It is a staging driver. I could not care less if a staging drivers breaks the build or not.
>
> If anybody cares about this driver, then take the time to merge it upstream. It has never been submitted to linux-bluetooth mailing list.
>
> There are drivers that should have never been merged into staging.
> This is one of them. Look for yourself and explain to me why this
> driver is part of staging in the first place.

Because it was sent to me by a developer?

Seriously, what's the issue here, I didn't notice it was a fork of your
code, sorry, I didn't check. I figured it would be eventually cleaned
up properly and then it will be sent to linux-bluetooth for proper
merging.

Yu-Chen, what's the satus of getting this cleaned up "properly"? You
haven't really done anything on this since I took the driver in May.

thanks,

greg k-h
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