Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760508AbcLAQGF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:06:05 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55516 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760444AbcLAQGD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:06:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:06:11 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Don Zickus Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Nicholas Piggin , Linus Torvalds , skozina@redhat.com, Ben Hutchings , Michal Marek , Adam Borowski , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Debian kernel maintainers , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Message-ID: <20161201160611.GA30910@kroah.com> References: <20161129195721.GI2697@decadent.org.uk> <20161201051852.28dc335f@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20161201041325.GX35881@redhat.com> <20161201153215.43b6cec7@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20161201152039.GB35881@redhat.com> <20161201152609.GA21862@infradead.org> <20161201154059.GC35881@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161201154059.GC35881@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 20 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:40:59AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > Unfortunately, there are various drivers that will never go upstream > > - paid storage drivers that provide bells and whistles on top of inbox > driver That's because the developer doesn't want them upstream, that's their fault, nothing we can do about them. > - old drivers/fs that application has been relying on for a long time but > company doesn't have resources to migrate to current technology. That's what drivers/staging/ is for, I'll take anything that builds (and sometimes stuff that doesn't build) as long as people are actually using it. So send the stuff that is in this category on to me and that will reduce your burden a _lot_. thanks, greg k-h