[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

[Eric Anholt]

Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 05:27:14AM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 16:14 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> > 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.
>> > 
>> 
>> That's Greg and Eric's decision.  
>> 
>> The vc04_services was already checked into staging when I was asked to
>> submit some ARM64 patches to remove some compiler warnings. My goal has
>> always been simply to get ARM64 to work, and I can probably accomplish
>> that by submitting changes to the RPI specific tree.
>> 
>> I'm just saying that IF the decision was made to continue upstreaming
>> these drivers, then I'm willing to continue helping by submitting
>> improvements.
>
> Either they should be merged, or these apis and structures will be
> deleted from the in-kernel code, it can't stay as-is.

FWIW, I've just I've started on the camera driver.
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