Re: [GIT PULL] Greybus driver subsystem for 4.9-rc1

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:18:07AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 08:05:19AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:45:53PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Sending a pull request for code that's never been seen upstream seems
> > > completely premature.
> 
> > Hey, how does code get upstream then?  :)
> 
> By having the actual code to the mailing list.

Ugh, vger keeps blocking the patches, I'm going to try for a third time
now...

> > As for the drivers all living under drivers/greybus/ I understand, but
> > we need the greybus core present first before we can get the drivers in.
> > How about we do what happened with IIO, we take the greybus core code in
> > drivers/greybus/ and put the drivers in staging, and then move them out
> > of staging into the "real" portion of the kernel as they get reviewed
> > and accepted?
> 
> Yes, staging would be appropriate for unreviewed code.

Sounds good.

thanks,

greg k-h