Hi All, I've had a look at the TODO files but I'm having some difficulty with finding out which devices each of the drivers support. My plan was to find a driver in staging, get a device off ebay which uses the driver and then start working on the TODO. Is this the right approach and is the actual device (for testing) needed in order to do cleanups in TODO files? Any help would be really appriciated. Thanks, James
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:07 AM, James Miller <jm21356@gmx.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I've had a look at the TODO files but I'm having some difficulty with finding out which devices each of the drivers support. My plan was to find a driver in staging, get a device off ebay which uses the driver and then start working on the TODO.
Is this the right approach and is the actual device (for testing) needed in order to do cleanups in TODO files?
That would depend on the type of device in question. Also make sure you do not quick fix the problem, some of these todo might require more investigation than what it seems on the surface.
Any help would be really appriciated.
Thanks,
James
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On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 11:07:47AM +0000, James Miller wrote:
Hi All,
I've had a look at the TODO files but I'm having some difficulty with finding out which devices each of the drivers support. My plan was to find a driver in staging, get a device off ebay which uses the driver and then start working on the TODO.
Is this the right approach and is the actual device (for testing) needed in order to do cleanups in TODO files?
It's a great start, but watch out for the wireless drivers in staging, most of them will be impossible to clean up "properly" and are only there to give people a working Linux machine until someone writes a new driver "from scratch" as cleaning up the staging driver is an almost impossible task (it's only ever been done once.) good luck! greg k-h
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