Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933803AbZJNOQx (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933548AbZJNOQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:52 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:59163 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933490AbZJNOQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:09:24 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Dan Williams , Ivo van Doorn , Ozan =?utf-8?B?w4dhxJ9sYXlhbg==?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: Current status of rt2800usb and staging/rt2870 Message-ID: <20091014140923.GA2890@tuxdriver.com> References: <4AD46380.9020308@pardus.org.tr> <200910132121.25743.bzolnier@gmail.com> <1255464940.10798.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200910132357.57094.bzolnier@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200910132357.57094.bzolnier@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 18 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57:57PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Several months later (after all current users are happy with the improved > drivers) the old drivers will be removed from staging.. I _really_ hope this isn't the standard. By that measure, nothing will ever leave staging as _someone_ will always have some use case that makes the other driver better for them. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/