[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

[Greg KH]

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.

thanks,

greg k-h