Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758532AbcLASnN (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:43:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39790 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758018AbcLASnK (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:43:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:42:54 -0500 From: Don Zickus To: Greg Kroah-Hartman 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: <20161201184254.GE35881@redhat.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> <20161201160611.GA30910@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161201160611.GA30910@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 25 On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 05:06:11PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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_. Hi Greg, I will forward this offer to the right folks and see who we can get to bite. :-) Thanks! Cheers, Don