Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758419AbZCTQGU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754454AbZCTQGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:09 -0400 Received: from norkia.v3.sk ([92.240.234.41]:50425 "EHLO norkia.v3.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752873AbZCTQGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:06:09 -0400 Subject: Re: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not. From: Lubomir Rintel To: Dave Airlie Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970903192126r69687891madbce3d5ee77f6a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090318183232.GA11594@kroah.com> <21d7e9970903192126r69687891madbce3d5ee77f6a0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:05:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1237565158.32737.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.25.92 (2.25.92-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 758 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:26 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > Staging doesn't fulfill this role from my POV: > a) what sane distro will enable staging drivers? do they care about their users? If the code there actually builds, I don't see a problem with packaging the staging drivers into a -crap subpackage, or maybe blacklisting them all by default, but saving the user who wants to cut his head off and watch himself bleed from having to recompile the kernel package for that. -- Lubomir Rintel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/