Re: [PATCH 2/2] isdn: i4l: move active-isdn drivers to staging

From: Paul Bolle
Date: Tue Jan 03 2017 - 16:54:40 EST


On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 22:19 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Sounds good to me. My original series contained four more patches that
> I did not post again after there was some concern[1] that we did not
> come to a conclusion on:
>
> isdn: gigaset: remove i4l code

Let me repeat that I'm fine with a patch that does that.

> isdn: move isdnhdlc out of i4l
> isdn: i4l: move hisax driver to staging
> isdn: move i4l to staging
>
> I can post those as well, at least I think the first two are helpful
> for untangling i4l from the rest of ISDN. I also still think that
> moving hisax and i4l to staging is reasonable given the state of
> that code, even if there are a couple of users today.

There are? And even if there are: is there any reason to expect that moving
the rest of i4l to staging will result in anything other than a stream of
checkpatch cleanups?

How often did a bunch of drivers re-enter the tree after being sent to
staging?


Paul Bolle