On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:09 AM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > Discussing "patented" in a changelog text is a big no-no. Please don't > do that. Talk to your corporate lawyers for why not...
Interesting. I will definitely have to investigate what's covered by those patents. > > Why are you adding support for new things here? New hardware support > should _only_ be added once the code is out of staging, otherwise there > is no pressure to get it out of this directory structure. > Because I am adding configuration support, and the existing supported h/w does not require this to operate. So I thought it'd make sense to add at least one in-kernel user of the new config interface. Would it be a better strategy to add an (optional) config interface to the existing supported h/w in staging/, rather than introducing new h/w ?
