SUSE Labs Conference 2018 - Adventures in (and out of) drivers/staging
Channel: SUSE Labs
Date: 2018-09-19

I have recently being involved in two separate projects involving drivers/staging, one being the lustre cluster file system, the other being support for the MT7621 MIPS Soc. This involvement has given me insights into the process, the code, and the attitudes that revolve around drivers/staging.

In this talk I will share some of those insights, particularly looking at the different way that externally-developed code differs from in-kernel code, and the different challenges in preparing code for its ultimate exit from drivers/staging.



Neil Brown