Before submitting a driver for Casper Excalibur Laptops

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Feb 21 03:16:09 EST 2024


On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 01:30:11AM +0300, Mustafa Ekşi wrote:
> 2. Where should I put my driver?
> staging/ or platform/x86/? I'm planning to extend my driver to support more
> laptops from the same vendor.

drivers/staging/ is only for code that is not ready to be merged and it
must have a TODO file that lists what needs to be done.  I'd recommend
just fixing the issues first and submitting it for drivers/platform/
directly.

> 3. Should I wait to extend support of the driver before submitting it?

No, send it now, no need to wait!

good luck!

greg k-h



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