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Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver


The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn

Greg Kroah-Hartman instead punted it off as something likely to happen for the next kernel merge window: " gpib cleanups and tweaks with the majority of the big issues now taken care of. Meanwhile with the Axis-FIFO staging driver for the Xilinx Zynq SoC's AXI-Stream FIFO IP, the sysfs code was stripped away as it turned out to be broken and then restructured to using DebugFS in working form: Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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