A question about staging driver like pi433

[Sidong Yang]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 08:12:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 11:27:13PM +0000, Sidong Yang wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Is there no one using this?  That's kind of hard to determine, and is
> a problem we have at times :(

I contacted the hardware developer in personal. And He replied positive.
I would get the pi433 device soon. It would be nice that It can be
tested in practice.

Thanks,
Sidong

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h