A question about staging driver like pi433

Sidong Yang realwakka at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 19:27:13 EDT 2021


On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 08:20:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:13:28PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a question about staging driver. I'm a newbie kernel developer
> > and I tried contributed some patches for staging drivers. In those
> > staging drivers, I'm interested in pi433 and wrote some patches for it
> > about 2 years ago. and then I tried to go deeper for that. I tried to
> > buy pi433 device but I can't. It seems that no longer available. 
> > 
> > In this case, pi433 should be removed from source tree?
> 
> Why would it be removed if people still use it?

Yeah, I thought there is no user using this device. I realized that it
was bad idea. 
> 
> > If not, It's okay to send patches for it?

Sure, 

Thanks!
Sidong
> 
> Please do!
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h



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