On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 01:02:34PM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:14 AM Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > Well, who wants this code? Who uses it? Find those people and get them > > to review it. If no one wants it or uses it, that kind of implies that > > it's not needed :) > > We have customers who (will) talk to this ABI from userspace, but they are > not 'Linux-y' enough to come to the mailing list and meaningfully review > the userspace ABI. > > IMHO the current reality of Fieldbus on Linux is companies rolling their own > proprietary out-of-tree interfaces and drivers. They do this partly because > there is no existing community or infrastructure. So there is no incentive > to be involved with mainline, which could also explain why no-one is > commenting > on this Fieldbus ABI. > > Chicken-and-egg problem ? > > Greg, could I convince you to take this Fieldbus subsystem in drivers/staging? > Perhaps its presence may kickstart or seed a Linux Fieldbus community. > Being in staging/ also means that we can tweak the userspace ABI to our > heart's content if more people/requirements come in. > > If there's been no meaningful activity in, say, one year from now, you may > decide to send this whole subsystem to /dev/null.
That sounds like a good plan, I'll take that. Want to respin the patches with the code in drivers/staging/ and I'll be glad to queue them up after 5.1-rc1 is out. thanks, greg k-h
