On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:36:20AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:52:31PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 06:18:36AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > The code doesn't compile due to incompatible pointer errors such as > > > > > > drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-tx.c:649:50: error: > > > passing argument 1 of 'cvmx_wqe_get_grp' from incompatible pointer type > > > > > > This is due to mixing, for example, cvmx_wqe_t with 'struct cvmx_wqe'. > > > > > > Unfortunately, one can not just revert the primary offending commit, as > > > doing so > > > results in secondary errors. This is made worse by the fact that the > > > "removed" > > > typedefs still exist and are used widely outside the staging directory, > > > making the entire set of "remove typedef" changes pointless and wrong. > > > > Ugh, sorry about that. > > > > > Reflect reality and mark the driver as BROKEN. > > > > Should I just delete this thing? No one seems to be using it and there > > is no move to get it out of staging at all. > > > > Will anyone actually miss it? It can always come back of someone > > does... > > > > All it does is causing trouble and misguided attempts to clean it up. > If anything, the whole thing goes into the wrong direction (declare a > complete set of dummy functions just to be able to build the driver > with COMPILE_TEST ? Seriously ?). > > I second the motion to drop it. This has been in staging for 10 years. > Don't we have some kind of time limit for code in staging ? If not, > should we ? If anyone really needs it, that person or group should > really invest the time to get it out of staging for good.
10 years? Ugh, yes, it's time to drop the thing, I'll do so after -rc1 is out. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
