Re: Move wlan-ng out of staging?

[Julian Calaby]

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 01:16:56PM +0100, Ksenija StanojeviÄ 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.

Thanks,

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