Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging/vboxvideo: Add TODO

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 13-02-19 19:46, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Hans
> > > > Which bring me back to a question asked a week ago or so.
> > > > What is missing before we can move vboxvideo out of staging/
> > >
> > > I think it boils down to someone needs to submit it and we'll take a look.
> >
> > Right, I have this on my TODO, but I did not manage to find time for this
> > the past few weeks. I expect to have time for this in a couple of weeks
> > from now, which means the move will miss the 5.1 merge window.
> >
> > Note you (Sam) are certainly welcome to submit a patch doing the move
> > yourself, I can certainly use some help with maintaining vboxvideo.
>
> I have not tried to submit patches to move vboxvideo out of staging.
> Partially due to lack of time, mostly lack of competence to
> follow-up on the review comments I hope we will see.
> I am perfectly happy to do trivial stuff, but when someone ask
> to replace the use of ttm with shmem+gem (example - I do not
> know if this is a relevant comment), then it is above
> me for the moment.
> And on top of this then I lack a good testing environment.
>
> I could do it but then anything difficult would just be added
> to a TODO file, and then I dunno how useful it is.
> Something to consider when we are past the merge window anyway.

Ok, I will try to submit a patch doing the move myself soon.

Regards,

Hans