[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Wed Jan 25 05:14:05 PST 2017


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 04:33:46AM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> Just for clarity, when you mean staging code? Are you talking about the
> entire vc04_services driver or are we talking about the vchi_msg_queue
> function?  
> 
> At this point, vc04_services isn't used by anything in the tree at all.
>  So if you want all the unused code deleted, well that sounds to me
> like you are talking about the whole driver.

Yep.  Let's either merge the rest of the code or delete the driver.
What we have now doesn't work.

> 
> I would be more then willing to help upstream the other drivers into
> staging for the RPI that actually uses this driver.  I just don't know
> what the process is for submitting staging drivers.
> 

Just make sure it compiles and send it to the list.


> As for the function, it's still an improvement on the existing which is
> what I through the cleanup process in staging was all about.

I honestly cannot tell one way or the other without looking at the
callers.

regards,
dan carpenter




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