[PATCH 6/9] VC04_SERVICES: Add compat ioctl handler for "await completion"

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 05:12:11AM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 13:22 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 04:07:15AM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 14:34 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 03:27:56AM -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 13:10 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote
> > > 
> > > For the sake of progress, I'm certainly willing to run the whole
> > > driver
> > > through "checkpatch.pl --fix" in stages.  
> > > 
> > > I do have two "demands" through if I go that route:
> > > 
> > > 1. The Kconfig needs to be modified so that the driver is out of
> > > the
> > > build by default unless pulled in by a dependency of another
> > > driver/module or explicitly pulled in by the builder's .config or a
> > > checked in defconfig. At least until the driver "graduates" out of
> > > the
> > > staging tree. I'm willing to submit a patch changing the default in
> > > Kconfig to N.
> > 
> > Why?  It should always build.
> 
> Yes, it should and ideally it should aways be built by the error
> checking robots.  What isn't clear to me is if it is really ready to be
> included on default kernel images on platforms that have nothing to do
> with the RPI. Or even platforms other then ARM or ARM64.
> 
> I can't think of any issues with the driver, but it's a very big driver
> written with low quality code.  It seems there needs to a phase in
> driver development where the driver is being constantly compiled and
> checked in the background yet not quite ready to end up "everywhere". 

That's up to the defconfigs of the different arches.  It only makes
sense to have it enabled for the RPI platform, nothing else, but it has
to be able to be built on all platforms as that can find issues that are
otherwise missed.

So it's fine as-is, don't worry :)

thanks,

greg k-h