Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Mainline kernel on a cellphone

[Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>]

Hi Sudip,

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:28:35PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:56:30PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:22:11AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > Mali GPU drivers are an interesting case:
> > ...
> > > 4. Their coding style is so different that I can't imagine mainlining
> > > them into staging area... Recently I was digging into Mali400 and it was
> > > literally hurting my eyes to see that coding style. It's like opposite
> > > of kernel.
> > 
> > iirc, gregkh's requirement for staging/ is that it compile.  Nothing
> > more.
> 
> Yes. But Greg will also say that we should be modifying the code with
> the ultimate goal of moving it out of staging into the main part of the
> kernel. And if all of us know that it can not be merged into the main part
> because of closed userspace then will Greg accept it?

Well, this seems to me to be a case of chicken-and-the-egg, which came
first?  fwiw, I think there's benefit in putting the driver in staging/
to see if it ignites development efforts on the userspace side.  If it
doesn't, I know Greg isn't shy about removing drivers from staging.  ;-)

thx,

Jason.