Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: remove it from the kernel

[Jan Kiszka]

On 15.03.21 17:10, Rob Springer wrote:
> Acked-by: Rob Springer <rspringer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:44 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> As none of the proposed things that need to be changed in the gasket
>> drivers have ever been done, and there has not been any forward progress
>> to get this out of staging, it seems totally abandonded so remove the
>> code entirely so that people do not spend their time doing tiny cleanups
>> for code that will never get out of staging.
>>
>> If this code is actually being used, it can be reverted simply and then
>> cleaned up properly, but as it is abandoned, let's just get rid of it.
>>
>> Cc: Rob Springer <rspringer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ben Chan <benchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Richard Yeh <rcy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

OK, so is there a plan of the HW vendor to improve the user experience
for this hardware? Is there a different software architecture in sight
which will not need a kernel driver?

Just wondering loudly while fiddling with dkms packages and starring at
the code diffs between what was removed here and what I still have to
install manually from remote sources.

Thanks,
Jan

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