staging drivers hwdb stats

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Mon Jun 22 16:09:50 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 20:54 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Leann
> Ogasawara<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Per the last Ubuntu kernel team IRC meeting there was a discussion
> > regarding the /staging drivers spec[1] and who is going to take
> > ownership.  It was mentioned it might be helpful to get some stats from
> > the hwdb to indicate which of the drivers might have a larger presence.
> > Here's some numbers that I was able to get.  Keep in mind that an
> > individual is able to submit more than one hw profile and obviously
> > submitting a hw profile is completely optional.
> >
> >             hw profiles
> > driver       w/driver     total profiles  submitters  total submitters
> > ======       ===========  ==============  ==========  ================
> > compcache    0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > dm-raid4-5   0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > iscsi_trgt   0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > ndiswrapper  18,699       1,265,248       6405        934,263
> > av5100       0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > pbe5         0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > appleir      286          1,265,248       125         934,263
> > fsam7400     0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > lmpcm_usb    1194         1,265,248       379         934,263
> > thinkpad_ec  0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > tp_smapi     0            1,265,248       0           934,263
> > ov511        2179         1,265,248       524         934,263
> >
> > I left off stats for the following drivers as the gobby doc indicated
> > they were going to be disabled/dropped (let me know if you'd like to see
> > data on them anyways):
> >
> > aufs - disable/drop
> > dm-loop - disable/drop
> > gfs - disable/drop
> > lenovo-sl-laptop - disable/drop
> > tlsup - disable/drop
> > snd-bt-sco - disable/drop
> > acx - disable/drop
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Leann
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/specs/KernelKarmicSponsoringStagingDrivers
> 
> Are these non-upstream-staging drivers?

Correct, these are not upstream yet.  The goal of the spec is to review
these drivers and either get them submitted upstream or disable and drop
them.

Thanks,
Leann





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